List,
For the life of me, I couldn't remember what a Honda 600 looks like so I
turned to the web. Check out this site! www.dmrgutters.com/600.htm
Seems that Honda 600's have quite a following. Good luck, John!!
Steve Pitt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Dick J
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 6:17 AM
> To: John Beckett; Land Speed List
> Subject: A Honda 600 ! !
>
>
> --- John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
> wrote:
> > Off season news:
> >
> > Sold the Chevette last month. It's a '72
> > Honda 600 sedan. Neat car
>
>
> HONDA 600 ! !
>
> Oh man, what memories that brings back. When I
> was visiting Vietnam a while back (1970) I went
> to Hawaii on R&R and rented a Honda 600. In
> addition to other things that my (then) wife and
> I had to do, we decided we wanted to drive on
> every mile of road on the island. We got a map,
> a magic marker, and started driving. By the end
> of the third day we'd have to study the map, find
> a stretch of road that hadn't been marked off,
> head that way, and drive on it. At the end of my
> R&R, when we turned the car in, the guy looked at
> the odometer and about choked to death. He said
> that in the twenty years that he'd been renting
> cars in Hawaii, nobody had ever put even a small
> fraction of that many miles on the car in one
> week. (I think we had something over 3,000
> miles on the car.) He asked me if I'd be willing
> to have my picture taken with the car and allow
> them to use it for advertising, in return for
> free rental. What GI wouldn't go for a deal like
> that? For the rest of my tour in 'Nam, guys
> would come back from R&R in Hawaii and tell me
> there was a big rental car poster with my picture
> right there in the air terminal.
>
> John, ya gotta let me take a picture next to your
> car when you get it done - -just for old times sake!
>
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