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RE: A Honda 600 ! !

To: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>,
Subject: RE: A Honda 600 ! !
From: "Steve Pitt" <steve@seattleconstructioninc.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:16:23 -0800
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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