My Honda C-100 Dream. Adventures on the "little beauty".   A new century deserves a new bike.   35   Revisiting the seventies in 2007.
  

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Other Interesting Two and Four Wheel Machines:

With this motorcycle below (Honda CB 750 Four) Honda imposed a new pattern of bikes, unknown until then by the public: power and beauty you could trust for its reliability, all of that packed in a sleek design.

Wonderful Honda CB 750 K1. In my humble opinion it is the 'Queen of Japanese Motorcycles'. The most thrilling sound that one could hear coming from the exhausts. The most beautiful sound an engine could produce, coming from the four-in-four exhausts or even from the 4-in-one customized exhausts.

Below we see two different concepts with the same history of success in sales (two stroke x four stroke).

Theresa with a Suzuki GT 750: two stroke, three cylinder, power and raw torque from a big size two stroke engine. Belo Horizonte - MG, in 1984.
Me and a japanese Honda XL 250 (1974 model). Belo Horizonte - MG in 1984.

 

A very rare Yamaha 650 cc Turbo at the streets of Verona - Italy, in September of 1982.
This is one of the most exotic bikes I have seen so far.  I say that considering the fact that it is a bike coming from the normal production line, despite being in small numbers. To compete with it I could mention the Suzuki 550 cc factory fitted with the Wankel engine (rotary) - an experimental model produced in small numbers, as the one being ridden in Goiania - GO by the beginning of the eighties.
Suzuki RE5 Rotary 1976
Suzuki Wankel (RE 5 Rotary), belonging to the AMA - American Motorcyclist Association - museum in Westerville, Ohio.

 

My father, Mori, and his Mangalarga horse Omega. The car is a Chevrolet Opala, six cilinder, automatic, 1975. The engine is the orange series (250 S).
My father and his beautiful Mangalarga horse Omega, in front of the main house at Vereda Farm, at the district of Hidrolandia - GO.  The car is a Chevrolet Opala, six cilinder (250 S), automatic, that belonged to me in 1986/87. This car was custom built by General Motors, for a handicap lady in Curitiba - PR. I bought this car in 1986, at that occasion the odometer showed a total of only 50.000 km registered in it.

 

Wonderful Dodge Dart 1973, with 35.000 km, I was the second owner of it in 1989. Curitiba - PR.

Chrysler Corporation do Brasil produced wonderful cars during the seventies, among them the Dodge Dart, the Charger R/T and the Dodge 1800 (Dodginho), later called Dodge Polara. As a true fan of this brand, I was fortunate enough to own the three mentioned models at the end of the eighties.

The "Dojão" and the family: Curitiba - PR at the beginning of 1989.

 

Me and my mother with my Holden Kingswood, 1971. Automatic, 6 cilinder, completely original and in a pristine state. Brisbane - QLD - Australia at the beginning of the nineties.

Holden is a genuine Australian company, founded in 1948. Initially they aimed to build sturdy and reliable cars for the Australians.  Years later they were incorporated by General Motors, but proudly kept their brand.  They produce wonderful cars. My Holden, showed on these two photos is the Kingswood, 6 cilinder, 1971, automatic and is very similar to its "Brazilian cousin" Chevrolet Opala 3.800 cc, which was called at its time Chevrolet Opala Gran Luxo.

My father and I with the "Aussie cousin" of the Brazilian Opala. Photo taken in the same day of the previous one. Important detail: this photo shows a twenty years old car.

 

My brother-in-law Pedro Ivan, his wife Flavia (my youngest sister)and the Honda Magna 750 cc. Photo taken in Goiania - GO, May of 1999.

Curiosities and preciosities:

Honda collection belonging to Capi, Honda dealer in Varginha-MG (south of the State of Minas Gerais).

Capi, in Varginha-MG, has a very interesting Honda collection of brand new unused bikes or with little use.  The range encompasses the models CG, ML, XL e XLX, as well as CB-400 and CB II.  Both photos (above and below) were taken on  09/12/99.

Another aspect of the Honda collection at Capi. The CG showed in this photo is a 1977 model, with only 4.000 km at the odometer.

Have you heard of motorcycles running on diesel? Check below:

Taurus, from Royal Enfield (Made in India).

Another very interesting link to be accessed refers to HDTUSA (Hayes Diversified Technologies) - Design and Manufacturer of Diesel Motorcycles for military and civilian purposes.

Some interesting links around the world:

All links to classic bikes were chosen by me and my son Amyr, having in mind those wonderful bikes that keep us dreaming about new stories and adventures.

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 May/2008: we achieved
38 Years of  Motorcycling		 E-mail: ricardorochalima@gmail.com

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