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Re: Allemano's № 830
« Reply #25 on: October 05, 2012, 02:56:54 PM »
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Re: Allemano's № 830
« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2012, 02:56:05 AM »
Is this Soichiro Honda in his Curtiss?
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Re: Allemano's № 830
« Reply #27 on: October 06, 2012, 05:29:48 AM »
It's a car called the "The Hamamatsu", a car built and maintained by the Art Shokai garage at Hamamatsu, Japan. Soichiro Honda ran this garage at the time, as well as being responsible for the car.
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Re: Allemano's № 830
« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2012, 03:14:12 AM »
Quote from: Craig Gillingham on October 06, 2012, 05:29:48 AM
It's a car called the "The Hamamatsu", a car built and maintained by the Art Shokai garage at Hamamatsu, Japan. Soichiro Honda ran this garage at the time, as well as being responsible for the car.
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Here's the original picture taken at the Tamagawa speedway in Japan (~1936):
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