Turbo Charged Prelude to 2F2F -New INFO!

[@TETVTEC1]

Hey, really cool that you made this video Craig.. im actually the guy who bought the car from Daniel back in february of 2004…. And YES, still got it ! 😊

[@phixion35]

Was this car ever on the HondaShowoff website back when you bought it? I might be thinking of a similar Civic, the one that was in the opening Porsche race scene in Gone in 60 Seconds. In any event, awesome that you got to buy and own this award winning and show stopping Civic! 👍

[@TETVTEC1]

@@phixion35 Hmm.. Good Question , but i dont think Daniel showed it on that webside…. I think it was I that put it on that page ! 🤔🙂

[@phixion35]

@@TETVTEC1 I couldn't remember if it was on there before or after you bought the car, but I remember it on there! I was SilverY2KCivic on there. Sadly earlier this year or the end of last the website closed and no longer exists. 😟

[@MyHamsterWasAlpharius]

Always thought it was a 3000GT! Loved this little clip between movies

[@YusufJoeKarolia]

I had the og 2f2f dvd with this prelude and you could chose which car you wanted as your backround and the behind the scenes for each scene😂 such a cool thing

[@nickbrown6694]

Lol, I kept waiting for him to talk about a turbo Prelude

[@TA351]

I have the DVD's when they first come out. This was a great addition to 2 Fast 2 Furious. I always watch this first before the movie.

[@chrisevaggelou8473]

I watched it continuously.

[@Fabulousprofound168]

9:05 was this the same Ferrari that was used in the movie in the boat storage yard scene?

[@xpectz]

Should have been a movie on its own.

[@ImInLoveWithBulla]

What made that R34 in the junkyard even funnier is that it wasn’t even an old car at that point. It’s like if they made a new one today and Vin picked out a rusty, old, abused C8 Corvette from a junkyard and said “I’m a car guru, no one knows what that is, but I know it can be fast”.

[@Doctors_TARDIS]

It is one of the most unrealistic things in the franchise AND THAT'S SAYING SOMETHING

[@erdemeebilgee3584]

It would have been cooler if it was like a 2 door gtt, then it would make sense if some kid bought it and fucked the engine, and If Brian was seen fixing it and eventually swapping the engine.

[@SawyerArtOfficial]

I love that Craig has been filling in the gaps with the Fast and the Furious. I was the target demographic when it came out and now my son is the age I was when it was released. I built a (2-Door) 02 Honda Civic with the famous "Blitz kit" and had big name brand (Greddy, Enkei, DC, Etc.) parts on what was probably the slowest car I've ever owned. It was mostly in part due to the fact that what I saw on the screen was what I thought was performance. The look was much more prevalent to me at the time than racing. I've started building my son his first car (2018 Accord Sport) with ALP 3p airbags and he is over joyed to see the franchise returning to the "street race" type movie. Big thanks Craig for your enthusiasm and knowledge of cars. I watch every video you release and it creates awesome conversation for my kids about the movies. I don't know if you go to car shows anymore, but it would be awesome to see you at an event and maybe get an autograph for my kids.

[@MarkMeadows90]

Thanks for giving us more information on the dark blue Civic that was used in the Prelude short. I kinda dig that Civic myself. Love the clean looks of it.

[@DanoFSmith-yc9tg]

Definitely thought this was going to be about a Turbocharged Honda Prelude, when I clicked on the video.

[@aaronzx10r]

Just hearing you say Racing Hart takes me back to being a teenager and buying tuner mags at the grocery store every month.

[@tinystar3010]

I still have all my mags. Super Street, Hot Compacts and Imports, Import Tuner, Honda Tuning, Modified Magazine, so many more. I miss those days. Now the only real quality equivalent to the mags is Larry Chen on youtube. I like having physical though, sitting outside during a soft breeze, reading about builds, good times.

[@idontgotagun9867]

My Dad had an Integra GSR with Racing Harts like 7 years ago

[@gothik6917]

Yea thanks to this prelude, I now own a red 3000GT VR4, I always loved Brian's cars, I regret selling my eclipse, and hopefully one day I can own an evo lol

[@danielksong]

Thanks for revisiting this Turbo Charged Prelude and highlighting the Civic Si! Definitely a walk down memory lane! So fun!

[@phixion35]

That Civic was/is legendary! I remember seeing it around So Cal a couple of times before the current owner in Norway bought it, and I believe it was on the HondaShowOff website as well which my EJ Civic was also on.

[@lucky9er567]

I got excited when I saw “turbocharged prelude” because I built a 98 sh turbo charged it and the whole 9 back in 01. Wasn’t a speed demon but she had 270 at the wheels. I loved that car

[@GoatRefueling]

The title of this video was messing with my head. I couldn't for the life of me remember a turbocharged Prelude being in any of the movies. Then I read the title again.

[@RJVM23]

That dodge stealth was a beautiful looking car

[@craiglieberman]

it really looked fast and clean , not overdone.

[@djmyth84]

The civic is still in Norway yes. We just talked about it in the Club Honda Norway 😍

[@palpitateguy5764]

good to know it is still alive

[@Kh4fra]

Am I the only one who expected to see an ACTUAL HONDA PRELUDE in this video?

[@YOEL_44]

Yeah, always thought it was the biggest missed opportunity of the whole saga...

[@johnmalone8868]

Yes

[@speedjibaro4202]

I was in love with that Evo 8, I watched that DVD probably 20+ times 😂

[@RAISEONER]

at the dealership the skyline belonged to the son of the owner of the dealership then brian offered cash and the dad sold it to brian thats why the kid was bugging out

[@psychlord1]

was included on the 2FAST2FURIOUS DVD as well.

[@jonathanrodriguez1203]

Im glad you talked about this! The prelude to 2f2f was always so amazing and unfortunately short.

[@BBWPound3r]

Thank You I was waiting for this for along time 😭

[@garybartlett7150]

Thank you, I was wondering about the 3000gt.... well the stealth

[@YOEL_44]

If you search for dr. Scrub you can find his website with a bunch of pictures, I've had a replica of his car in Juiced 2 for years now.

[@ImaginaryNate]

Yesss! Another video about the Turbo Charged Prelude, my favorite short of all time. Glad this one spent more time on the 3000gt, that car was so cool in the F&F franchise. My only question is does anyone to this day know where the “diner” scene was shot at? I know on paper it is Texas, meanwhile the actual film location is somewhere in California. I can’t imagine they built the diner for this short film so it was rented for the time slot instead.

[@HendrickT-bi4iw]

I had this DVD back in the day. Even back then I knew it was ridiculous to find a neglected R34 in a car lot but nevertheless this prelude was nearly more enjoyable for me than the movie itself. Always thought that the plot was more original than going undercover for a drug lord.

[@edgarpoe517]

I just finished my annual Fast and the Furious marathon. Nice to see your cameo way back in the first one.

[@sonnduro]

That prelude part got me hooked my the FF movies, never watched the first movie before this. I watched 2f2f 3 times in one when i first watched it

[@itzyaboybugz]

I remember they said the RC ZipZap cars from radio shack I had them all. This movie also pairs well with bad boys 2

[@TTD666]

I just recently sold some of those zipzap shells on Mercari lol. Held on to them for a bunch of years, good times!

[@20rocket]

They should bring the girl from the prelude into the franchise. Also I love the instrumental that played as soon as he leaves the diner

[@toonzoku9478]

Last month I drew Daniel's old Civic actually! Very cool car and the reason for drawing it was because of its presence in the "Arizona" setting which is my place of residence.

[@LanGust8]

Imagine finding a wrecked r34 in a random dealership 😂 lol that really would never happen in real life.

[@Playboi13]

lol I spoke to some people they said it was pretty common outside of the states back in the days

[@alexander1485]

There was a vector w8tt at a used dealership in japan.... true story

[@alexander1485]

Its not wrecked, its a wip project

[@xkimopye]

In Australia, never saw trashed r34s but plenty of trashed r33s and r32s

[@blue6gun]

These days it wouldn't happen absolutely not, but in 2002-2003 it wasn't enough of a crazy idea that Hollywood wouldn't use it to leap frog into Miami. There was a wrecked R34 GTR in Bayside blue on ebay about year prior that wound up selling for about 13K dollars. It had been used as a side impact crash test vehicle or it had slid in an actual crash but I can't remember. Either way the passengers side was pancakes so 13K at that time was crazy to many but it did include the entire RB26DETT drive train that still ran. Not quite as ideal as Brian's used car lot find that he could drive away in but not an impossible dream achieve at the time if you had the bankroll for it

[@klayshotter]

Finaly we got some info on the blue civic!! I was wondering if there was a story behind the car

[@CZMate]

I remember buying another copy of the fast and the furious dvd right before the release of 2 fast 2 furious. It was the tricked out edition that had this 2 Fast 2 Furious Prelude on it.

[@2fast4udk]

Fun fact: In around ~2007 there was an Evo 6 with a perfect replica of the livery from 2f2f Eclipse spider in Romania in my hometown. I don't have the photos anymore but man, beying 16 at the time, I was amazed of it.

[@bombardier6033]

De unde esti?

[@2fast4udk]

@@bombardier6033 Neamț

[@AD-1808]

@@2fast4udk moooin

[@RJVM23]

Minka Kelly though! 👀

[@Qballl]

Thank you Craig for explainging what the thing on the front of the R34 was. I had previously asked somewhere else online and got replies like I was stupid for not knowing what it was while also not being told what it was.

[@YOEL_44]

In fact the similar devices I've seen use water to cool the intercooler, not nitrous oxide, that's quite extreme.

[@tinystar3010]

I never knew it was a dodge stealth, I was one of the people thinking it was a 3000 GT

[@pyrxtv3470]

The stealth was cool but should have done a Honda prelude I mean it’s a no brainer someone dropped the ball😂

[@blue6gun]

My grandma loved her red 1991 Dodge Stealth. N/A, fwd but it was a 6spd and it was red lol

[@4g64spyder]

man i was in the gulf at this time and i watched this countless times. loved it. i still havent gotten my hands on a 3kGT yet tho.

[@parkermorris90]

Rest in peace, John Singleton - the director of 2 Fast 2 Furious. Actually, the first and the second movie makes some sort of golden dilogy. The third movie after all these years completed the challenge by the time and now it looks like a pretty good movie but with another characters with no Brian or Dominic appearing (except Diesel's cameo at the final).

[@reskepa7028]

And of course, RIP Paul walker

[@iNZane_Mustang]

Yeeeaaahhh booooiiii!!! I had a Stealth in Highschool and now a VR4 because of this "easteregg" a lot of people didnt know about.

[@Ronnybue]

I love the Stealth

[@Mr4..]

Yes my video request!!! Thank you Craig!

[@craiglieberman]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@Mr4..]

@@craiglieberman absolutely 👌😁

[@Ryoneftw]

Loved the insight on this little piece of history! Thank you Craig.

[@YOEL_44]

Since I've made my Abarth 500 look decent, I've been going to some night meetups and the reality seems to be that most people don't drive 1000hp fully custom 90's sports cars, but fairly normal commuters with maybe stage 1 tunes. With that knowledge, watching the amount of award winning cars that were crowded in the same street for these films now looks kinda fake too, it's incredible what the movie magic can make us believe.

[@brianskotch2922]

The car scene is very different now. I remember seeing tons of lightly modified car with huge fiberglass bumpers and bright paint jobs in the early 2000s

[@YOEL_44]

@@brianskotch2922 Don't get me wrong, I've seen quite a few "sex-spec" cars on other events, but they don't seem to be the ones that fill the night meetups.

[@TheRealMrRoyal]

I would like to know where Hector's gold civic hatchback is I built a replica of it with full r34 bomex front, buddy club sides, and a phantom rear, and also his bagged accord wagon. My 2 favorite cars from the series.

[@JMDrives]

The silver Eclipse with the blue decals is seen on few of the SuperStreet magazines.

[@MrDrifterdevin]

F'n'f was the only dvd I bought twice so I could get the tricked out version. Thank you for making this prelude episode

[@SEAN959_]

Man your vids are soo interesting...soo many things ive learnt that i wouldve never known honestly Keep it up man👌

[@wcsoblake85]

I can remember when I was in high school reading articles about that bomex civic. It was legit. I read about the wheels on that car. I cannot remember exactly how much they cost. What I remember were just how expensive those wheels are.

[@aakashjadham7271]

Beyond Imagination......❤❤❤❤

[@cocoatama]

Yooooooo this was freakin' awesome. Thanks for sharing more info that you can't really find or hear anywhere else. I've been a fan of yours since you started KZbin. Keep sharing and being you.

[@SpaceRanger187]

They better bring Jessie back in the new one

[@fullmetalpanzer1503]

Hell yeah! He could be half cyborg, rebuilt by Sean and his team. 😆

[@rohanbedser1498]

I loved the green eclipse

[@ggj1987]

I love that Civic, especially the graphics. Too bad they were removed. The car kind of reminds me of the Civic in the opening scene of Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). I wonder where that car ended up

[@julianf40ify]

I loved this wish we got to see more of Brian becoming a better street racer and building up this R34 while on the run from the cops when ever I do my little fast and furious marathon I always include this too

[@nitrous_purge]

The Skyline acquisition is highly unlikely, but not implausible. Hear me out. Given the fact that Brian trades the car for cash, without any paperwork (and remember, he is a fugitive at this point -- he needs something without a paper trail) almost guarantees this Skyline was illegally imported, and either stolen from its possessor or sold off after a pursuit. This would explain why it's sitting amongst a bunch of more mundane cars, scuffed and debadged -- the average person wouldn't look twice at it. Secondly, Brian was a cop. He might have went to this dealership specifically because he had investigatory knowledge that it doubled as a fence for crime cars. In this case, an illegal Skyline being passed around like a hot potato isn't a huge stretch, though extremely lucky.

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

Given they were in FLORIDA...Back in those days... MANY MANY people were importing them illegally, or legally importing, but illegally tagging them. Most of the R32-r33-r34's in Florida PRE 25 year rule, were Tagged as Silvias, S13's, S14's ect ect... I even seen one Personally, here in Ohio, on a Florida plate, tagged as a Maxima. So its not a stretch AT ALL, to say " he found one illegally hiding in a scrap yard" YOu even get the look from the kid, dad just sold his car... because dad was pissed about the legality of it, and didnt understand what it was. Its actually perfect.

[@nitrous_purge]

​@@crisnmaryfam7344 Exactly. Craig and guys like Sean Morris have even commented on this phenomenon. There's no shortage of corruption and bribery at the DMV, lol. It's only some Herculean feat to have found an R34 in the US at the time if you assume crime doesn't happen and everyone is playing by the book, which would be laughable.

[@pickopenforever4206]

Prelude definitely helped the story

[@jvrkandc]

F tht diva diesel.....ever since he told us on the set of Bloodshot that "Im the star of FnF & I'll do as I think is fit" ..any respect I had I lost tht second... PAUL WAS & WILL FOREVER BE THE STAR.FULL STOP

[@loby24]

Loved the 2F2F prelude

[@oAnxietyy]

Thank you Craig for recreating the history behind my favorite movie that made me who I am today !

[@craiglieberman]

My pleasure!

[@KarlScaleModeling]

Awesome, always great to learn some more things about the franchise 😊 Thanks for sharing the info Craig 👍🏼

[@xCARBOMBx]

This made me want a 3000gt back in the day

[@nissan6541]

Dammit. I read it thinking that there was a Honda Prelude.

[@Mr-6666]

Some of these folks that junked or crashed their cars are probably mad that now their car is worth a lot of money. Just for being in a movie.

[@CZMate]

Great information like always, thank you for all these videos you make

[@icanseeyouallfromuphere]

Our lovely chap Craig uploads again....💯✌🏻

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

The problem from a lot of these Dodge Stealth and 3000 GTS that they have a lot of engine problems I actually saw once a 1991 3000GT at a repair shop and I asked the mechanic what was wrong with the car and he told me that the engine was already bad and the guy wanted to fix it but it was really hard to find a engine for this car and the guy was looking for a Dodge Stealth engine or a 3000GT engine and no shop or no junkyard had those engines😢😢😢😢

[@StuntmanDanHemi]

The most unrealistic thing in the F&F franchise was finding a R34 in a dumpster dealership like that, in the middle of butthole nowhere and cheap enough to pay it full in cash, on the spot.... and they have been to space lol

[@NightsN2dr3ams]

Yes I know lol

[@KeijiSuwa]

You’d probably see something like that in Japan though since people in Japan abandon perfectly good cars all the time.

[@StuntmanDanHemi]

@@KeijiSuwa but he was not in Japan lol

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

Given they were in FLORIDA...Back in those days... MANY MANY people were importing them illegally, or legally importing, but illegally tagging them. Most of the R32-r33-r34's in Florida PRE 25 year rule, were Tagged as Silvias, S13's, S14's ect ect... I even seen one Personally, here in Ohio, on a Florida plate, tagged as a Maxima. So its not a stretch AT ALL, to say " he found one illegally hiding in a scrap yard" YOu even get the look from the kid, dad just sold his car... because dad was pissed about the legality of it, and didnt understand what it was. Its actually perfect.

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

you forget the year this came out....BAck then they werent all that expensive... Even Craig mentions "prolly me 100k today"... this isnt Today... It was early-mid 2000's... when everyone was importing and tagging them as Other nissans..

[@davidboerst4789]

remember the cry02 set up? I think it had the same printable of cooling, but im not sure how effective it was

[@davidsuperslow99]

If only I could find the owner of that dodge stealth. My brother grew up with him. Close friends. I know his name is Ben. But no other info besides that. I’ve searched his page online but nothing.

[@Space.Folding]

Nothing on Minka Kelly? She was so good looking in this

[@Dm6Ripper]

The prelude did add a lot of context to 2f2f in my opinion

[@palpitateguy5764]

I wondered what happened to that Rx7 in race wars, the one that got lost to the s14

[@midrangetorque]

"We didn't know their names, who they were, or the specs of their cars. They parked their cars on set for a few hours, ate some lunch then PICKED UP THEIR CHECKS??" No names or info, but they were allowed on a major motion picture set, and got checks?? I think Craig is tired of trying to track down info requests for too many cars. Haha.

[@johnsonlong8491]

I thought its a turbo charged honda prelude

[@Johnny_Ocha]

Great and fun feature. I really enjoyed it the first time I saw it. 💪🙂👍

[@K20civicsirturbo]

Good ol days

[@XGPLAYZ]

Thanks so coool 🤙🤙 hype it provides!

[@Stonedaru92]

I thought he ment a honda prelude, and was a little confused on why i didnt remember it. 😅

[@oscarziyo]

It's just the name of the short clip not the cars in it, "prelude" used as literal "before the movie story" and "turbo charged" just to make it sound cooler.

[@Stonedaru92]

Thanks! Iunderstand that now. I guess my car knowledge got the best of me.

[@SlowLude]

I remember being disappointed by this back in the day because there wasn’t an actual Honda Prelude in the show

[@Atem_S.]

Those were the days...

[@Raaid0093]

That dodge steath sounded like the R34 the whole time in the prelude. Cheaping out on sound?

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

Well you never know some people have rare and expensive cars or rare and expensive video games and they think it's just junk and they will sell it Dirt Cheap just to get rid of it

[@briantroxell7874]

All this time I’ve always thought it was a 3000 GT 🤯 I guess it is kinda the same car but still.

[@420Bigfoot]

😍 As always, thank you for the Carcaine! 🤓

[@Pitti_Piotr]

I loved the turbocharged prelude once I've found it by accident. In Europe it was not that obvious. Most found it on Blu ray from fnf.

[@suna9555]

Hey Craig you should go over or at least show some of these random background cars sometime. I understand there isn’t much to say about them but they look pretty special and nice back there, I didn’t even realize they had a Supra as a background car until you showed it near the end of this video. Additionally I liked the other videos you did like the playboy show you had that included stuns and cars very cool.

[@craiglieberman]

like e said for 5 years we have zero information on those cars

[@suna9555]

@@craiglieberman I mean I'm not expecting detailed specs and part lists I was just interested in what you could make from them and the experience you have in the scene.

[@topsupra6972]

Great video!

[@ThePokemondongos]

Hey Craig, please do a vídeo about the Act a Fool Ludacris video clip, i remember watching it on repeat before the movie premier, then the movie goes out and there's no Louis Vuitton NSX, i wanted to see that car in the movie badly

[@michaelb6729]

Who else realised 3min into this video, it isn't about a turbo-charged '96 Honda Prelude VTiR-ATTS ?? 😬

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

It's really hard to find Dodge Stealth and on top of that these cars didn't even sell as well

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

and they ran even... less as well....

[@lyhaikudai3]

8:30 the sell man actually try to hide the car away and saving his paycheck for it, but Brian got deeper pocket and the sell man was sad when selling it

[@DareToBeDeviant]

If I had a nickel for every moron out there who claimed the title was/is misleading, I'd have enough money to fill up my tank. A prelude is an introduction with various forms of media ~ storytelling (preface) or even musical (overture). So many people online jumped in and 'complained' the hero car (Dodge Stealth w/kit)) wasn't a Honda despite many others posting the same thing. Let's take a minute to remind ourselves how broad the American language is. Words have multiple meanings. _My_ only small gripe is they never bothered to utilize Minka Kelly for anything past this. She could've been a helpful ally in later films, even a small role. Nope. She inexplicably helps Walker escape and thinks nothing of it. Oh, well.

[@trippnoutmotorsport3164]

I’m not sure if your trying to imply the Eclipse the girl drives is a covered up Rome eclipse but you can see it’s definitely not a movie car

[@YOEL_44]

It is in fact a "covered up Rome Eclipse", it just has the factory body kit and wheels and a new spraycan paintjob.

[@craiglieberman]

it was a movie car, but i didn't get painted because we only needed three rather than four that Mitsubishi.

[@trippnoutmotorsport3164]

@@YOEL_44 and the whole factory interior put back in it??

[@trippnoutmotorsport3164]

@@craiglieberman so it was an unused movie car? Is that what your meaning? Mitsubishi donated 4 and only 3 got used in the movie and this 4th one was left completely stock?

[@YOEL_44]

@@trippnoutmotorsport3164 Only a couple of cars had full interiors, and yeah, there were probably more cars than needed, given that they were provided by Mitsubishi. EDIT: Craig has confirmed it a few comments back.

[@AlphaFlight]

The prelude was better than the second movie anyways

[@TheOfficialCOOLGUY291]

great video keep up the good work

[@drivefaster4u]

Is your space key broken perchance?

[@SwapBlogRU]

I remember being sort of disappointed with the 2F2F Prelude. Because I thought that "Prelude" was referring to a car (it's probably not a ridiculous assumption, I'm sure that at least for Honda people it would be the first association when they see the words "turbocharged Prelude").

[@anthonydeleon6477]

Yes!!! I was a kid thinking the same thing waiting the whole time for the prelude to come out!!!

[@alexander1485]

"Things to come"

[@d1specdrifter]

😂😂😊😅😅

[@reskepa7028]

Womp womp

[@matthostetler5422]

I thought the same thing when I saw the title of this one. I thought "I don't remember anyone driving a prelude in 2f2f." I guess I was right.