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RE: A Honda 600 ! !

To: Steve Pitt <steve@seattleconstructioninc.com>,
Subject: RE: A Honda 600 ! !
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:18:55 -0800 (PST)
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       *
> > * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> >
> >
>
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> >
> 


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* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
*         Dick J          * 
*    (In East Texas)      *
*         # 729           *
*     C/GRS   E/STR       *
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