Comments on: Another (positive) Honda-inspired rant http://2strokebuzz.com/2008/04/08/1960s-advertising-magazine-ad-honda-usa-on-flickr-photo-sharing And that's why I don't like cricket Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:50:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: race roberts http://2strokebuzz.com/2008/04/08/1960s-advertising-magazine-ad-honda-usa-on-flickr-photo-sharing/comment-page-1#comment-5628 race roberts Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:42:43 +0000 http://2strokebuzz.com/index.php/?p=4033#comment-5628 Nice post. As usual. Nice post. As usual.

]]> By: supersoul http://2strokebuzz.com/2008/04/08/1960s-advertising-magazine-ad-honda-usa-on-flickr-photo-sharing/comment-page-1#comment-5627 supersoul Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:49:21 +0000 http://2strokebuzz.com/index.php/?p=4033#comment-5627 You are spot on with your premise and analysis. Coincidentally, my first motorized two-wheeled vehicle was a 1964 Honda Sport 50 (model CA110A if my recollection is correct). I had just turned 17 and was blown away when my Dad suggested that he would buy me a motorcycle so that I didn't have to walk to school. He took me to the new Honda dealer that had just opened up. Honda was so new to the US market that I had not yet even heard about them. When I walked into the dealership and saw the 3 or 4 models they had, including the 305 Honda Dream which immediately caught my attention, I knew all I needed to know about Honda. Even my untrained eye could tell that Honda was something very special. Well, I tried, but Dad wouldn't go for the Dream. Nevertheless, that darn little Sport 50 was the most fun I ever had on a motorbike. Extremely well made, really good-looking, 100 MPG/55 MPH....what more could a poor boy want. Oh yeah, the girls liked it too. I wish I still had that little machine. Imagine, a 50cc, 4-stroke engine motorbike that goes 55 MPH and gets 100 MPG. Sure makes you long for the good old days. My new 150cc scoot doesn't go that much faster and gets only 70 MPG. Is that what we call progress? You are spot on with your premise and analysis. Coincidentally, my first motorized two-wheeled vehicle was a 1964 Honda Sport 50 (model CA110A if my recollection is correct). I had just turned 17 and was blown away when my Dad suggested that he would buy me a motorcycle so that I didn’t have to walk to school. He took me to the new Honda dealer that had just opened up. Honda was so new to the US market that I had not yet even heard about them.

When I walked into the dealership and saw the 3 or 4 models they had, including the 305 Honda Dream which immediately caught my attention, I knew all I needed to know about Honda. Even my untrained eye could tell that Honda was something very special. Well, I tried, but Dad wouldn’t go for the Dream.

Nevertheless, that darn little Sport 50 was the most fun I ever had on a motorbike. Extremely well made, really good-looking, 100 MPG/55 MPH….what more could a poor boy want. Oh yeah, the girls liked it too. I wish I still had that little machine.

Imagine, a 50cc, 4-stroke engine motorbike that goes 55 MPH and gets 100 MPG. Sure makes you long for the good old days. My new 150cc scoot doesn’t go that much faster and gets only 70 MPG. Is that what we call progress?

]]> By: morrisseyscoot http://2strokebuzz.com/2008/04/08/1960s-advertising-magazine-ad-honda-usa-on-flickr-photo-sharing/comment-page-1#comment-5626 morrisseyscoot Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:30:56 +0000 http://2strokebuzz.com/index.php/?p=4033#comment-5626 You are so correct, it hurts my brain. You are so correct, it hurts my brain.

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