HR May 1969 – Honda’s Big 4
The major-domos of American Honda’s service department were exhausted; they had spent days in the New Mexico desert trying in vain to burn down Hamamatsu’s ultimate brainchild, the 750cc four, immediately prior to its first public showing. And yet, every time you would ask one of them how that big dude ran, the drawn lines of facial exhaustion would quickly give way to expressions of satisfaction and enthusiasm. The performance of the machine was that strong, that the mere recollection of it many hours later would have an almost narcotic effect.
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