Owned by 17 year old!

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dlw

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I spent yesterday with my son's black 93 Prelude VTEC using VM topped by NXT, getting ready for his prom. He mowed the yard (it's a big one) while I detailed. After we both finished our jobs, I asked him if he wanted to swap cars for the night. He said no because he was afraid I'd "get into the VTEC" too much! LOL!

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We learn the hard way dont we ?? Nice ride he has, shoot my p.o.s. was 15 yrs old when i graduated ! 65 Chevy Mailbu in 1980....(Course, now im old and wiser and wish i had it!)
 
You're son has a nice ride! Great detail :xyxthumbs



I have never seen mud flaps on a Vette before! :p
 
Thanks for the kind remarks. The Prelude has been the subject of a few past threads. Kind of a Phoenix project, bought on the internet, sight unseen and driven back to Omaha from New Mexico and painted in our garage at home. BTW, the "mudflaps" on the Vette are the hard plastic splash shields from Ecklers, they've kept the paint behind the wheels perfect since '92 and besides, most people just see them from a rear view! J/K, after all these years, I'm still not sure if I like them or not, pretty subtle, but very effective doing their job. The ZR-1 tires on the rear stick out just a bit further than the stock ones.
 
maybe try getting the mud guards painted to match your car. I did that for my brother's acura tl. It looks pretty sweet. And it's different from everyone else's.
 
The Lude is looking sweet. I love that prelude. I followed your project from beginning to end. What a great job you did!
 
Superb, lovely cars, they have the same shape and similar lines my Integra. And the Vtec does seem to make for a good addiction, and people faces when you first lead them into one :)



On a side note, I like the blue calipers aswell, got round to painting mine yesterday, quick pic of them
 
So, your son turned down an 11 second Corvette because he was worried about you getting into VTEC (essentially taking the car past 4000/5000 - varies car to car) . Thats insane!
 
RX-7 Addict said:
So, your son turned down an 11 second Corvette because he was worried about you getting into VTEC (essentially taking the car past 4000/5000 - varies car to car) . Thats insane!
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haha, precisely what i was thinking!
 
I posted this before, but apparently many of my posts have disappeared...



Your son would rather drive that Prelude than that gorgeous Lingenfelter 383 'Vette?!?! :shocked



Where do you think you went wrong in his upbringing?
 
Yes, sometimes I wonder about the kid! He's taken the Vette out by himself for a half hour before but apparently was too nervous to really enjoy it. It's not that he doesn't like the power, he's always going on about heating up his Prelude when he gets a summer job. On the other hand, my 16 year old daughter asked me to teach her how to drive a manual trans so we took the Vette to the school parking lot. 45 minutes later she was in full command cruising in the Vette (with me white knuckling it in the shotgun seat). Just kidding, she was amazing, like she had been driving it for years. Now, keeping her out of it is a bit tough. I take it out for drives on Friday and Saturday nights and now have to split driving time with her! I just love it when the young guys pull up beside us and see her at the wheel. They always do a double take!
 
dlw said:
Yes, sometimes I wonder about the kid! He's taken the Vette out by himself for a half hour before but apparently was too nervous to really enjoy it. It's not that he doesn't like the power, he's always going on about heating up his Prelude when he gets a summer job. On the other hand, my 16 year old daughter asked me to teach her how to drive a manual trans so we took the Vette to the school parking lot. 45 minutes later she was in full command cruising in the Vette (with me white knuckling it in the shotgun seat). Just kidding, she was amazing, like she had been driving it for years. Now, keeping her out of it is a bit tough. I take it out for drives on Friday and Saturday nights and now have to split driving time with her! I just love it when the young guys pull up beside us and see her at the wheel. They always do a double take!
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you are definitely a cool father. :)
 
I'd like to thank all of you for the compliments and kind words. I like to think I'm a pretty cool dad, but it takes pretty cool kids to pull it off. My kids are 32, 17 and 16 and all three are great fun and each one is totally different in their own way. Being a car guy all my life and having had some real clunkers along the way, one of my goals was to make sure my kids had nice older cars that they could be proud of and hopefully one of them would inherit my love of cool cars. Well, guess what, my 16 year old daughter seems to be the one. She's a real girl and starting to like the boys (she's on her first date ever tonight!), but one of her greatest pleasures is going to a car dealer and looking at the latest models and coyly humiliating the sales person with questions about features such as horsepower, etc that she's already researched on the internet. She's hopelessly in love with the new smaller BMW SUV but says shes' gonna stick with her silver '98 CRV for a while (hopefully until she gets a really good job!). When we bought the CRV, the first thing she wanted me to do is paint the wheels gun metal gray and add a larger chrome tip to the muffler, LOL.
 
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