Someone at Winding Road loves the Honda T-series. We can’t really blame them. What’s not to love about a 9000rpm kei-class truck that’s also historically significant for being Honda’s first four-wheeled vehicle? Check out the catalog scan - in English! - and this classic commercial.
Of course, that just begs the question, what if instead of a Mad Max-like desert, what if the post apocalyptic wasteland is actually covered in snow? Well, then you get the Snowler.
And for our own coverage of the only known example in the US, check out this article from our Profiles archive.
After a long week of showcasing its corporate master’s wares, the Honda Japanese website likes to shed the work duds and have some fun. Cometh each weekend, the home page transforms into a bizarre yet beautiful and rich world of the most mesmerizing pixel art we’ve seen.
To get to various sections of the site, users must now navigate a strange, isometric world of blocky gardens, futuristic labs and cubic canals populated by boxy denizens doing everyday activities as if inside a digital Where’s Waldo? page. Can you spot the scuba diver, the kid with the radio control Civic, the kangaroo? Naturally, Honda products both old and new, like ASIMO or the T360truck (pictured), are part of the fun sprinkled throughout.
The whole effect is rather surreal and enchanting, and we’ve even discovered some mini-games hidden in the rectilinear universe - the golfer, the color-changing dog. And as the girl with the blue balloon hints, the site was created by the renowned pixel art team eBoy.
If this isn’t enough quadratic quirk for you, head on over to the Icon Museum, where you can download your very own pixellated Hondas, whether you fancy Step Van or NSX or anything in between. The icons will stay around 24/7, but come Monday, the main page puts the suit back on and returns for another week.
In our recent article on Brian Baker’s 1964 Honda T500F, we gushed ecstatic over the Snowler option, a factory Honda accessory that could transform your innocent little trucklet into a half-track with skis on the front wheels, perfect for tagging penguins, fetching Christmas trees or searching for the elusive Yeti. Despite looking like a something out of a Cold War propaganda film, we find the T-series just as cute as a button, no matter what Mad Maxery it dons. Anyway, we thought you might like to see this bad boy in action, so here’s a YouTube video of one doing what it does best.