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Happy Birthday Soichiro-san!
« on: November 17, 2015, 05:12:10 PM »
Happy Birthday to Soichiro Honda.  He would have been 109 today! 

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Re: Happy Birthday Soichiro-san!
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2015, 06:53:55 PM »
Happy BDay SC!
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Re: Happy Birthday Soichiro-san!
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2015, 07:12:44 PM »
Thanks for the K1 I really enjoy it!
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Re: Happy Birthday Soichiro-san!
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2015, 09:36:51 AM »
Happy Birthday Mr. Honda!




I call you Mr. Honda out of respect.


                                 

.............and because I don't know how to pronounce your first name  :-[
 
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Re: Happy Birthday Soichiro-san!
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2015, 10:33:37 AM »
There is a photo somewhere in the family archives of my brother meeting the great man in 1971 in Honda UK, Chiswick. A great day for both of them  ;D

Seiously, Soichiro was a visionary. Few enough left.

Kev
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