40 year wait... 1965 Honda s600 Roadster

colink · **Posted:** Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:17 am

Great write up cannot wait for further updates

fisch · **Posted:** Sun Apr 18, 2010 7:15 am

Such an amazing find! Love the history! Love the adventure to get it.

Honda600King · **Posted:** Sun Apr 18, 2010 7:46 am

Those paper assets you got with the car are amazing and in amazing shape! There are a few I hadn't seen before. Good luck with your project!

Norcal510 · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 10:32 am

So this past weekend I was moving cars around the shop and I moved the s600 to the corner. I have another project that I need to attend to before I start on the S. However I was searching through the car and found a few things in the glove box that I took pictures of.

If you look closely it mentions the ship name, voyage. Where it was being shipped from "Okinawa" to SF. Based on what the last owner told me it appears his story matches what he told me about his grandfather importing the car straight from Japan.

In the envelope there was an extra set of keys, some very old Band-aids and a few OLD aspirin.

Here is the rest of the stuff that was in the glove box. The only thing missing in the picture it’s a black woman’s scarf.

Some sort of log book and a OLD map from 1967

Receipt from Will Rogers Turn pike & some news paper clipping. Not sure how this relates but it was in the address/log book. There are a bunch of contact numbers in the address book. Im debating if I should phone these people & see if they know any history about the car.? What do you guy think???

I also removed the wisconsin corvette club badge after I snapped it moving the car around. DAMN!! im gonna have to weld it back together.

I found more goodies in the trunk. Will upload those pictures and post soon.

Thx

Norcal510 · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 10:57 am

Honda600King wrote:

Those paper assets you got with the car are amazing and in amazing shape! There are a few I hadn't seen before. Good luck with your project!

Thank you.. Actually your cars inspired me to locate an S600 of my own.

85si · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 6:57 pm

Wow a car stored for 40 years, rallied, many options, and paperwork?! Awesome! Can't wait to see it all done.

Sven7 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:13 pm

Very cool. I don't understand how that survived so long in Cheeseland, of all places! Must have been stored in the winters. Good luck with the project!

Norcal510 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:27 am

Sven7 wrote:

Very cool. I don't understand how that survived so long in Cheeseland, of all places! Must have been stored in the winters. Good luck with the project!

Yes, it was stored indoors through the winters. It took its last drive around west bend WI sometime back in 1969 before it was parked due to clutch swap that never went through.

Right now Im working on other one of my cars. Which is taking up all my time & money but as soon as Im done getting that sorted. The restoration will start on this. Or maybe I’ll just repair any rust & try to keep it as original as possible?? A lot of people not just on this site have mentioned I should keep it keep it in the current condition. I don’t know.

Norcal510 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:45 pm

Been a while since I've posted here but someone on here should buy this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... ink:top:en

If I only had the extra cash.

john · **Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:48 pm

Norcal510 wrote:

Here is the rest of the stuff that was in the glove box. The only thing missing in the picture it’s a black woman’s scarf.

How do you know the scarf belonged to a black woman?

Norcal510 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:57 pm

datsunfreak wrote:

Norcal510 wrote:

Here is the rest of the stuff that was in the glove box. The only thing missing in the picture it’s a black woman’s scarf.

How do you know the scarf belonged to a black woman?

Haha Im sorry. I was trying to say " the only thing missing was a black scarf that belonged to a woman."

Sorry for the confusion :oops:

honda-ronny · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:32 pm

Hello

great great story i am a little bit jalous.

how many miles did you drive to pick up the car?

have a nice day

greetings from The Netherlands

ronny lucassen

Norcal510 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:55 am

honda-ronny wrote:

Hello

great great story i am a little bit jalous.

how many miles did you drive to pick up the car?

have a nice day

greetings from The Netherlands

ronny lucassen

Ronny,

Thank you for the kind words.

The drive was about 2200 each way to pick up the car. I think it was a total of 8 states we went through to get the car.

honda-ronny · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:41 am

wow great story

when i drive more than 200 miles to the north i am out of holland!
when i drive more than 50 miles to the south i am in belgium
when i drive more than 100 miles to the west i drive into the sea
when i drive more than 5 miles to the east i am in germany

greets ronny

Norcal510 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:50 pm

I just noticed you have two S series Honda's. Do you have pictures?

honda-ronny · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:02 pm

Hello

yes i have a honda s800 coupe (fully restored already)
and i have two s600 cars, one is realy bad (only for spares)

the other one i am restoring at this moment.

I hope you have some time to view al 409 pictures

see for picturesL:

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=QAYXX44V

Hondafiend · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:19 am

This is a great to see this car being restored! I have to say I am jealous for sure! There are so few of these S series cars in the US and I would love to have one. Keep up the good work! I will be watching

bonvo · **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2011 12:24 pm

beautiful car man is it me or is it screaming for an s2k swap

willhaven · **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2011 3:39 pm

No way. The swap would make a ton of power but the old engine, as weak as it is, sounds like the gods.

Norcal510 · **Posted:** Thu May 19, 2011 10:59 am

bonvo wrote:

beautiful car man is it me or is it screaming for an s2k swap

Thank you!!! Although s2k swap can be very tempting. I am somewhat of a purist when a car is complete & original. I did find another s600 shell in Sac a few years back that I considered buying so I could do an s2k swap. However it sold QUICK.

What Ill end up doing is have my motor rebuilt. Plus s2k motor doesnt have a redline of 11k :lol:

40 year wait... 1965 Honda s600 Roadster

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