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Re: A Honda 600 ! !

To: "Richard Kensicki" <richk@sparta-junction.com>,
Subject: Re: A Honda 600 ! !
From: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:42:22 -0500
I thought about putting all four wheels in line, but Joe said the holes in
the belly pan, large enough for my feet to fit through, would disrupt the
air flow to severely.

JB


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Kensicki" <richk@sparta-junction.com>
To: "Steve Pitt" <steve@seattleconstructioninc.com>
Cc: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; "John Beckett"
<landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; "Land Speed List"
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: A Honda 600 ! !


> John & List
>     After checking out the web page on the Honda 600 and seeing a picture
of
> the Fjastad-Olson-Morris A/Gas streamliner (1995 version) I think John and
> Joe are pushing the enevelope with this one. Should never have said
> Hondaliner. Will the front wheels be in-line?
>     Good Luck
>
>     Rich Kensicki
>
> Steve Pitt 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       *
> > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________

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