Playing Catch-Up with some photo's I've had around Colorado. - Honda Prelude Forum

prepreludesh · 10-01-2011, 08:16 PM

Quick Synapsis: Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Paul Walker and photos around Colorado Springs main natural attractions, and some car show photos.

Hey everyone. I've had some pictures I haven't posted for a while. But I've finally sat down and started to load these up. I've been having a good time in Colorado. Hard to believe that 10 months have came and went! Anyway, I want to start with some photo's I've been meaning to take since I moved here. Mainly, the natural attraction to Colorado. If you've never been to the Rocky Mountain area (Colorado, Wyoming, some of New Mexico, etc) then I highly encourage you to do some sight seeing out here. What a beautiful place! This is a great time of the year when the Aspen's begin to turn color, so I figured I'd saddle up the Prelude and head on out. Apologies beforehand that every picture has the Prelude in it, but it made for a good white-balance when I began to edit the photos. Speaking of which, I tried editing them for kinda the first time ever today. I'm not a pro at it by any means, so bear with me if some of the colors look off. Tips and ideas on cheap/easy to use programs would be nice too!

Honda4Life · 10-01-2011, 09:25 PM

There is a photo section

http://www.preludeonline.com/f116/

and a members ride section.

Members' Rides - Honda Prelude Forum - Prelude Online.com

I vote for the members ride section as every pic has your car in it not the "General Prelude Discussion" area where it is now.

Sorry.

zfinatic · 10-02-2011, 07:51 AM

nice photos man....glad to see you actually getting to enjoy your ride again after so long and so much trouble.

prepreludesh · 10-02-2011, 12:12 PM

Back on June 28th, my wife and I had some friends come visit us for the weekend. One of the attractions they wanted to see was Pikes Peak (elevation 14,110ft). There are 3 ways to get to the top of the mountain, you can hike a trail, you can drive up (~$35 a car) or you can take the cog railroad up. We elected to take the cog railroad up. Little did we know before we stepped on it, but the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) was happening that day. The tour guide on the way up advised everyone to stay away from the summit's parking lot because the cars would be coming up at fast speeds. Well screw that, I was going to go see where all the action was!

So when the train reached the top, my wife and friends began to go inside of the restaurant/gift shop at the top, but I took off to the parking lot. There were alot of camera crews and news teams at the top, so I walked over to a photographer and asked him where all the cars were. He said they were expecting them any minute. Then he pointed to a car and said "did you ever watch any of those fast and furious movies? Paul Walker is over in that car over there." And he pointed to a white Porsche. We started to walk over to it and somebody was rummaging around in the back seat, but then sure enough, Paul Walker stepped out. 3 or 4 camera crews came running over and started pumping him for questions. I got some photos in, but then I decided to run back to the building and get my wife and friends. They didn't believe me when I told them, but then they came running out too and we all stood around and waited for pictures. I've not had any other interactions with celebrities outside of Jay Leno (at the Henry Ford Museum) and Gene Simmons' Son at the Memphis airport. But for what I know, he was pretty cool. He talked to anyone that wanted to talk with him and he didn't have any kind of body guards. He even went to pee in the public restrooms just like everyone else, haha. So here are some pictures I got...

My Friend Ramon got a picture too

Then the cars began coming up. The first car to crest the summit was, surprisingly, a Honda Fit.

I guess you can still have stock drum brakes since you only need to worry about going up the Mountain, not down...

Then the second car up, oddly enough, was a Nissan Leaf. I have seen in the most recent issues of Car & Driver/Road and Track, etc, that Nissan is advertising this car as one that could make it up the mountain. Interesting....

Third car up, not sure what this was...

Last car I witnessed coming up... Not sure what it was, but I did notice that after that, a steady stream of old muscle cars were the next ones to come up. I was unaware as to how open this race was.

Last picture before I left, I saw this guy walking towards the building, but I didn't know who he was. Does he look like anyone famous?

prepreludesh · 10-02-2011, 12:23 PM

A couple weeks later, I found a car show up near a place called Castle Rock, Colorado, which is roughly halfway between Colorado Springs and Denver. Little did I know when I registered, it was mainly a classic car show, but on the registration website, it said that the show was open to any kind of car (mentioned tuner cars in its description). Just like the story of my life, I get there and everything is not how it was explained. I was not only the only Japanese car there, I was the only car made in the 90's it seemed except for a Plymoth Prowler and a C5 Corvette. Oh well! I'll post up some other cars soon enough, but for now, here are some of the Prelude. Observe the other cars I'm around, haha

Nighthawk01 · 10-02-2011, 12:23 PM

Last car looked like a Plymouth Cuda.... but the front looks a little odd.

looked like a blast man, what luck to be there during the hill climb

geramy · 10-03-2011, 09:58 AM

Very cool, I miss Colorado. Not much for car shows around there anymore, unfortunately the scene has died out in the Springs area. Its a little better in Denver and Ft. Collins.

S-LudeDan · 10-03-2011, 11:31 PM

whoa!!! nice car and beautiful scenery! I miss CO!

mikksteel · 10-04-2011, 12:33 PM

Man I'd love to make it up there some day. How'd your car run at such a high elevation?
Did the race mean that you didn't have the option to drive up that day?