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Re: A Honda 600 ! !

To: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>,
Subject: Re: A Honda 600 ! !
From: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:11:56 -0500
You bet


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: "Steve Pitt" <steve@seattleconstructioninc.com>; "John Beckett"
<landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; "Land Speed List"
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: A Honda 600 ! !


> John, when it's done, you have got to post a
> picture of your car on that web site.  No doubt
> about it, you'll have the fastest Honda 600 in
> the world!
>
> Dick J
>
>
> --- Steve Pitt <steve@seattleconstructioninc.com>
> wrote:
> > 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!
> > >
> > > =====
> > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> > > *         Dick J          *
> > > *    (In East Texas)      *
> > > *         # 729           *
> > > *     C/GRS   E/STR       *
> > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> > >
> > >
> >
> __________________________________________________
> > >
> >
>
>
> =====
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> *         Dick J          *
> *    (In East Texas)      *
> *         # 729           *
> *     C/GRS   E/STR       *
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