BajaNomad

Honda's First Off Road Race Car

TMW - 4-1-2019 at 11:19 AM

From Kevin Ward:

the current owner fired it up and ripped around the parking lot- sounded snappy! would be great to see it run in the NORRA event.







David K - 4-1-2019 at 12:10 PM

Sweet!
I remember seeing the first Subaru 4WD wagon in the 1975 Baja 1000 (Score's first 1000).

chuckie - 4-1-2019 at 03:02 PM

It wasn't the First HONDA.....Was it?

advrider - 4-1-2019 at 06:45 PM

Very cool.

willardguy - 4-1-2019 at 07:01 PM

failed CV joint was its demise.

A failure in the CV joint drive hub snap rings caused them to come apart when the car would jump, and become airborne… Every time this happened, [Robertson] would get out and shove the hub back into place, and go a bit farther until it would come apart again. He did this until the early morning. Exhausted, he threw in the towel, and the little N600 was returned back home, a little worse for the wear.

[Edited on 4-2-2019 by willardguy]

chuckie - 4-1-2019 at 07:06 PM

Imagine what they could do now, if they wanted to!

willardguy - 4-1-2019 at 08:29 PM

Quote: Originally posted by chuckie  
Imagine what they could do now, if they wanted to!


build a bike that can finish Dakar and a competitive F1 car? :lol:

4x4abc - 4-1-2019 at 08:40 PM

lets not forget - without Dave Ekins and Billy Robertson Jr. driving down Baja in 1962 on Honda's new Honda CL72 Scrambler motorcycle there would be no Baja 1000

basautter - 4-2-2019 at 05:38 AM

Awesome!

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