03-01-2014, 12:53 AM
WOW...LOOK..... you could get hamburgers for 24 cents
Neat picture Paul, and to think all of those bike pictured are now worth thousands lol
Great memories for kids from that era.
First Honda I ever rode was a 1965 C110 50cc Sport...and I had the serious hots for an S90.
it's 1965 and I am 15 years old. I have a job and my dad thinks I need my own wheels to get back and forth to school and work. I want a C110 like my buddy has. So I drag my dad down to the only Honda dealer in town Cincinnati Honda on Vine Street. We walk in and I run up to the C110 and point it out to my dad. He walks up, looks at it a minute and twists the front fender to the side and says "This damn thing is made out of plastic" followed by "come on we are going down to Harley" (my dad rode Harleys by that time since Indian went out of business), so we go down to Ray Conklers HD on Tennessee Avenue. We walk up to a row of Italian Aermacchi built Harley badged 50cc 2 strokes that Harley brought in to compete with the Hondas and my dad bends over makes a fist and raps on the front fender (bonk bonk bonk) and says " See... metal. This is what you're getting". I was really disappointed I didn't get a Honda but was thrilled to be on 2 wheels... at 15, a full year before it was legal to do so. Haven't been without 2 wheels since... including a bunch of Hondas! Dad eventually switched to Hondas as well as he got old and the full dress Harleys became to heavy for him to handle, CB 350/4, CB 200, CB 175 and his last, a CB 125.
Neat picture Paul, and to think all of those bike pictured are now worth thousands lol
Great memories for kids from that era.
First Honda I ever rode was a 1965 C110 50cc Sport...and I had the serious hots for an S90.
it's 1965 and I am 15 years old. I have a job and my dad thinks I need my own wheels to get back and forth to school and work. I want a C110 like my buddy has. So I drag my dad down to the only Honda dealer in town Cincinnati Honda on Vine Street. We walk in and I run up to the C110 and point it out to my dad. He walks up, looks at it a minute and twists the front fender to the side and says "This damn thing is made out of plastic" followed by "come on we are going down to Harley" (my dad rode Harleys by that time since Indian went out of business), so we go down to Ray Conklers HD on Tennessee Avenue. We walk up to a row of Italian Aermacchi built Harley badged 50cc 2 strokes that Harley brought in to compete with the Hondas and my dad bends over makes a fist and raps on the front fender (bonk bonk bonk) and says " See... metal. This is what you're getting". I was really disappointed I didn't get a Honda but was thrilled to be on 2 wheels... at 15, a full year before it was legal to do so. Haven't been without 2 wheels since... including a bunch of Hondas! Dad eventually switched to Hondas as well as he got old and the full dress Harleys became to heavy for him to handle, CB 350/4, CB 200, CB 175 and his last, a CB 125.