Ceras Victoria (Honda Prelude), Car Alarm Removal

Ceras Victoria had an aftermarket Clifford fancy alarm installed in her just after I bought her. I wanted a good car alarm.

The problem is as time has gone on I have not driven her much, especially being in law school and using public transportation every day.
I drive the car maybe once a week, more likely once a month. This means I use fuel stabilizer in the tank a lot and that the internal battery on the car alarm goes dead.
I disconnect the battery when I park it because there is an electrical drain (possibly was the alarm) so that I can start it when I need to.
The disconnecting of the battery meant that every time I reconnected the battery the car alarm treated it as a break in. This means that it goes in super shut down ignition kill mode which is just a pain in the ass. So, when it did this while I was visiting family in New Jersey with my girl friend (was supposed to be a short visit, turned out much longer) I decided the alarm had to go.

Luckily I had my camera with me.

Seat removed to make it easier to access the dash.

Ceras Victoria (Honda Prelude), Fender Remodeling

As mentioned before... the fenders on Ceras Victoria's ugly side sometime scrape the good rubber making for fun noises and interesting smells. This usually happens when the car is particularly loaded with stuff during left turns or big bumps.

Being really annoyed I took a hammer to it. Originally I was planning on reshaping the wheel well back to its original shape but that proved too difficult due to the folds in the metal.

I therefore hammered it up and out of the way, which helped a lot when the car is empty.
Also, to compensate for this, I'm known to left foot brake over bumps to shift weight forward and prevent wheel scrape. I think it sometimes drives cars behind me on the freeways crazy.

Pictures now...

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Ceras Victoria (Honda Prelude), Road Trip to Washington DC, Summer 2012

I figured I'd post some images of the current state of the car...
I also drove it to and from Washington, DC this summer and up the East Coast some.

Ceras Victoria (Honda Prelude), Post-Crash Walk Around

This one is pretty self-explanatory. These are the pictures post smashing into a guard rail at 55+ MPH.

I won't mention who the driver was, it was not me. I was asleep in the passenger seat while on a January road trip to Miami. The person at the wheel hit a patch of black ice and committed the two biggest mistakes you can when you hit ice: broke and steered.
When you do either, or both, what happens is as soon as the wheel that was slipping meets pavement and friction is the car turns, and at 55+ MPH it turns hard!

Anyways... on to the pictures!