In the (former) owner's words:
I thought this would be perfect for your "Beater Week!"
This is a 1987 Honda Prelude Si. I no longer own this vehicle. But I orginally purchased it in 2001 from a friend who used it as a winter beater and needed to get rid of it. After some heavy negotiating I got him down to the fair price of $50....yes $50 and she was all mine.

When I got the car it already had been spray painted flat black, it needed some air in one of the tires and needed a little coaxing to start the first time as it had been sitting for abotu 6 months. But the interior was extremely clean and everything worked (AC, stereo, power windows, sunroof). It ran very good as well, quick little car that would chirp the tires into 3rd gear even.

After getting board with it as it was and being in design school at the time and having access to the metal shop...my friends and I decided to have some fun with it and built the wing you see on the back out of sheet metal, which weighed approx 75lbs and needed a lot of reenforcment to stay up. I had friends bring me what ever decals they had and applied them . A trip to home depot and I got a rubber maid tub and some paint roller pans which I mounted to the car as "air intakes".

A little bright orange spray paint and you have what we all adoringly refer to as "The Executioner".
I drove it up woodward ave here in detroit to several tuner car meets and it was always met with a round of applause and would steal the show...even if a 700hp supra was sitting right next to it. I also added some underhood stobe lights from pepboys for just such occasions to really wow the crowds.

The car also took the "Reader Ride of the Week" twice on the now gone website hondaprelude.com.
Sadly one day I looked out of my dorm room to the back parking lot where would always park the exectioner at college; it had been sitting for several months by this time; and it had been towed.

Never have I had so much fun with $50, some sheet metal and a few cans of spray paint.

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