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Re: A Honda 600 ! !

To: Steve Pitt <steve@seattleconstructioninc.com>
Subject: Re: A Honda 600 ! !
From: Richard Kensicki <richk@sparta-junction.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:22:08 -0500
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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