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Offline turboguzzi

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trip down memory lane
« on: April 30, 2020, 10:56:13 PM »
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/honda-los-angeles/

no sohcs, but it all started here for the USA

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Re: trip down memory lane
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2020, 11:20:39 PM »
Great stuff. Thanks for posting.
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Re: trip down memory lane
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2020, 11:40:36 PM »
For me, it started in the early/mid '60s, at the Santa Barbara County fair. The local boat shop, Speed Marine, had a display of shiny new Hondas; I fell in lust at first sight of the Super 90. ;D 
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Re: trip down memory lane
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2020, 12:06:13 AM »
i dont go back that far and no honda dealers in israel back at the time :)

first one that did my head was in 1972, a overseas tourist with a UK plate 750 pulled into our condominium parking lot with a metal flake silver painted tank.  Was so totally out of this world, looked huge and glam. I was 10 yr old back at the time, that bike is still stuck in my head.


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Re: trip down memory lane
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2020, 09:03:55 AM »
I'd love to get one of the scramblers to fix up.
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Re: trip down memory lane
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2020, 12:11:17 PM »
I'm sure there's many that remember Russ Collins.  I bought a lot of stuff back in the 70's from RC Engineering to try and beat one of my buddies that bought a Kawasaki 900.  I never raced him with this bike, but had a pretty fast RC 1000 big block motored CB750.  Now I just tool around on a RoadStar, no more going that fast.