The Honda/Acura Collection
05-09-2013 | 06:39 PM
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The Honda/Acura Collection
A couple of NSX owners just got to visit this private collection and posted about it on NSXPrime. Very cool. 
I recognized the outside of the building from Homecoming II in 2010. (Wow, has it been almost 3 years since then...)
I recognized the outside of the building from Homecoming II in 2010. (Wow, has it been almost 3 years since then...)
. Gene, you're more on top what's going on in So Cal than I am. Thank you for the heads up.
05-09-2013 | 10:01 PM
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Yeah, great find. I'd love to visit that showroom. I used to drive the silver wagon but mine was blue. It was a 1981. So funny to see it featured with all the other cars he took pictures of. I would love to have that Legend Coupe sitting there. Thanks for sharing.
05-10-2013 | 05:49 AM
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Gene and all. I'm copying this over from a post on Upstate. I think you folks would enjoy reading the linked article 
Found this via S2KI Car Talk
1972 Honda 1300 Coupe 9 GTL - a review and a great history of the last car that Soichiro Honda directly influenced
The 1300 Coupe 9 was the last project Soichiro personally led before retiring in 1973, and he poured every ounce of his 50-some years of know-how into it. It was his pièce de résistance, a car surely designed to show the young guns quickly filling Honda's office that the old man still had some tricks up his sleeve. Tricks like the rear swing axle design that essentially links each suspension arm onto the opposite side of the car, preventing the off-camber bucking that generally comes with a swing axle (prompting Ralph Nader's assault on the Chevrolet Corvair). Australia's Wheels magazine professed in 1971 that "the nicest thing about driving the Honda 1300 Coupe is that you'd never know it was front drive unless you peeped under the bonnet first."
Image below is the S version of the car
Found this via S2KI Car Talk
1972 Honda 1300 Coupe 9 GTL - a review and a great history of the last car that Soichiro Honda directly influenced
The 1300 Coupe 9 was the last project Soichiro personally led before retiring in 1973, and he poured every ounce of his 50-some years of know-how into it. It was his pièce de résistance, a car surely designed to show the young guns quickly filling Honda's office that the old man still had some tricks up his sleeve. Tricks like the rear swing axle design that essentially links each suspension arm onto the opposite side of the car, preventing the off-camber bucking that generally comes with a swing axle (prompting Ralph Nader's assault on the Chevrolet Corvair). Australia's Wheels magazine professed in 1971 that "the nicest thing about driving the Honda 1300 Coupe is that you'd never know it was front drive unless you peeped under the bonnet first."
Image below is the S version of the car
05-10-2013 | 08:45 AM
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05-10-2013 | 08:50 AM
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Hey, this was from an NSX Forum. What do you expect?
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