This Honda S600 Roadster presents itself as a complete and rust-free restoration project—a nice opportunity for enthusiasts of early Japanese sports cars. The car is offered as a full project but comes complete, including its original hardtop. The seller says that the engine head shows no cracks—a rarity for this model. The crankshaft is said… Read More Red and grey: 1965 Honda S600 Spider
The 1964 Honda S600 represents a pivotal moment in Honda’s history, being one of the company’s first production sports cars. Following the success of the limited-production S500, Honda introduced the S600 as its first truly mass-marketed automobile. Available as both a roadster and a coupe, it retained the high-revving, motorcycle-inspired 606cc DOHC inline-four engine, producing… Read More Chain driven: 1964 Honda S600 Roadster
Rarely does “small” equate to “frightening,” but in this case, we feel an exception is warranted. This 1974 Innocenti Mini, one of those produced by Innocenti (the same company that made the Lambretta scooter, to be clear) under license from Morris, has undergone a heart transplant that transformed it in the best imaginable way: instead… Read More White lightning: 1974 Innocenti Mini “Honda”
800 cc, four carburettors, 67 hp at 8,000 rpm: that’s not the synthesis of a motorcycle but of a spider from the 60s. As you can imagine the manufacturer is called Honda and the car model is S800: let’s say that the manufacturer was familiar with motorcycle engines, and designing one for a small sports… Read More Four-wheeled bike: 1969 Honda S800 Cabriolet
The build quality of Honda is all summed up by this car: a small spider equipped with an engine capable of revving up to 8,500 rpm. In 1965. Even in Europe cars with this displacement were made, but these were small cars with engines that were not very pushed so as to be parks in… Read More Revvy red/2: 1967 Honda S600
It is not easy to find an Isetta for sale, although apparently there are many: in reality almost all of those for sale are BMW. This is still an Isetta, produced by the ISO before the latter granted the production license to the Munich-based factory, and if you do your checks you will see that… Read More 3 X 4: 1954 ISO Isetta Turismo
Update, March 28: this beautiful Honda is still for sale but the seller has considerably lowered the price. Now it is for sale here at €11,000 (today $15,000). The S600 roadster was much more common than its coupé sister, however we find that this model is way more fascinating. Indeed the average production of the S600… Read More Revvy red: 1965 Honda S600 Roadster
It’s not easy to find a good Honda S800, it’s harder to find an lhd specimen and it’s even harder to find one in Europe. This model is provided with a 800cc. engine which revs up to 8500 rpm. A 67 hp power output from a street, not-turbocharged, 800cc. engine, it’s a remarkable achievement even… Read More Raging japanese: 1969 Honda S800 coupé
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