smithenhiven

I figured I'd share this with everyone, this is my collection of antique Honda literature, which consists mostly of S600 related brochures and such, but there are some S800 T360/T500 manuals/brochures, Cub F brochures and a lot of antique Motorcycle stuff:

In cronological order:

1952 Honda Cub F brochures:








1950's Honda motorcycle brochures/literature, and owner's manuals:

This is a 1953 Honda Dream E-type owner's manual (The pic is of just the cover, but if anyone is curious to see the whole thing, I can take some additional photos. I'm in the process of importing one of these bikes)

1953 Dream E sales brochure:


1956 Honda Sales leaflet (last year for the Dream E-type)

This one's similar to the one above, but it's for the Benly JC

The 1956 Model line-up poster:

1956 Honda Benly brochure 1:


1956 Honda Benly brochure 2:


1956 Honda Benly brochure 3:

The pic below is correct, the bike is upside down, but the text is right side up, I guess this is how they designed the brochure.

Middle folds out:


This goes with my 1962 Honda Cuby engine:



Here's all my S600 stuff:

I'll start with the three variations of the owner's manual/handbook.




This was a magazine ad from the period:


Brochure 1:


Brochure 2:


Multi-page S360/S500 to T360 (pics only of front and back cover).


S800:

T360 sales pamphlet (probably given to children to do the cut-out model):



This is a dealer post-card, we think these were sent to S600 owner's as service reminders because it's got the picture of the Honda S600 service station sign:




This is my favorite peice, it's the Honda S600 optional items catalog:














That's all for now, I'll update as I get more.

If anyone else has any classic Honda brochures, feel free to share.

NIKE SB'd

iTrader: (1)

Wow amazing collection man I really really wish I could read japanese right about now

doublethink

i really laughed hard when i saw this, whats with the american cowboy kid and his dad?

wtf lol

nice collection

jeremy.

Please keep sharing

smithenhiven

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i really laughed hard when i saw this, whats with the american cowboy kid and his dad?

wtf lol

nice collection </TD></TR></TABLE>

I guess Japan was enthralled with Americanism back then, and companies, such as Honda, would play upon that through their advertising.

doublethink

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I guess Japan was enthralled with Americanism back then, and companies, such as Honda, would play upon that through their advertising. </TD></TR></TABLE>

You are correct, hysterical though if you think about the scope of it.

You don't see any usdm honda catalogs with pictures like this in it:



You know what I mean?

vtec.dc2

thanks for sharing.. very nice seeing that stuff

smithenhiven

I got a few more to add.

Here's a pretty rare brochure, 1960's L700




Here's a neat one, from the Honda "rent a car" program as showing the S600, N360 and L700 for rent.




I've got another rent a car brochure, it's exclusive to the S600, and is partially in english, and has the fee schedule in english. In the 60's for around $5, you could rent an S600 for 24 hours. I'll take some photos of that one as well and upload them for this thread.

Zenguy

Nice collection !

Zenguy

If your are interesting in, I can post some documents about the Honda P50, it's a 50cm3 moped with a four stoke engine and two speed, situed on the rear wheel. I've got one in restoration.

This is a P50


I've got some documents like this, and owners manual in french and also some tehcnical docs but there are under acrobat reader (I have buy a cd with all this informations for help me in my restoration).

smithenhiven

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Heck yeah

Zenguy

Ok, sorry for the time of my response. Let's go !

French test of the P50 :











Explosed view :







If you need it, I can try to translate some parts, just tell me

Zenguy

And now the french owner manual :















































And that's all. I have some others cool documents, but there are under acrobat reader, I don't know if I can post them on a forum. (?)

doublethink

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you can export them to JPG using this method:

open the document full screen, hit the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard.

open any image editor, mspaint, photoshop, whatever, and press CTRL + V

then go file, save as whatever.jpg and throw them up on photobucket or whatever.

you can also see if theres some type of program or something built into adobe to do that automatically since that method will take some time.

~sp33~

Nice brochures! I have heaps but i think they're a little too modern? Either way you can view them in my thread in my sig if your interested

Good to see other people collecting

starchland

amazing stuff thanks for sharing.

do you have any pics of this toy engine
?

smithenhiven

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I assume you're referring to the Cuby engine. Here's my thread on that:
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1838374

starchland

amazing thanks.

and your avatar i have the same poster here on my wall, its what started my love for the s2k i think i got it at an autoshow one year when i was about 14, great stuff i will have own it one day.

efficiencyJunkie

Smithhaven has a amazing collection!

smithenhiven

Got a few more items, 1st 4 posters are for sale (check ebay), the rest I'm keeping for my collection:

Honda Benly CD125 Exploded diagram of engine (this thing is massive):


Honda 90 Poster:


Honda Race bike poster:


Honda full lineup price chart:



1953 Honda Benly J-type sales leaflet:


1953 Honda Benly J-type owners handbook:




1957 Honda motorcycle brochure:





1957 Honda Benly JC57/58 Parts list (this will go good with the JC57 I just picked up)




And I've got some awesome large T360 Truck posters, and a Honda L700 poster, I didn't get a chance to snap any pics, will do that when I get them framed.

Bobs600

Interesting to see the early bikes. I've never seen one in the flesh - are parts as difficult as for the S cars?

I have some S-600 lit I didn't see here so far. First, the coupe brochure











The next pieces are much rarer than the cars. Even Jason may not have seen them before.

The heater was, technically, an option though I've never seen a car without one. The next pic is the instruction manual for installing the heater.



Then we have the owner's manual for heater operation



And last we have the owner's manual for the radio. This gem is mimeographed (anyone remember that process?) on A4 paper with the illustrations pasted on by hand and hand-numbered.



Glad to share these, Bob.

smithenhiven

Bob,

Thank you for sharing those. If you EVER want to sell any/all of those, please give me first dibs, as I don't have any of what you've posted in my collection. I've only ever seen one of those heater manuals, and I've never seen the radio manual. Great stuff. I'm very jealous.

smithenhiven

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Sorry, I totaly missed this part of your post, I was to busy drolling over your brochure and manuals.

Anyway, parts for the pre-export bikes are more difficult to find than for an S-car. I've got a 1957 Honda Benly JC57, thankfully it's close to 98% complete. But those 2% of parts it's missing will be next to impossible to find, I'll likely have to custom make anything I need for it.

smithenhiven

Here's a few more items I recently acquired:

Honda L700 Dealership Poster:


Honda T360 Dealership Poster:


Another Honda T360 Dealership Poster:



This next one's pretty neat, it showcases the Honda S90 motorcycle, and it has general info on 7 other bikes, then in the corner there's an S600. Goes to show how the S-cars got their start, being sold through motorcycle dealerships. To me, this poster kind of says "Hey check out our full lineup of wonderfull motorcycles, and O, by the way, we've got a car now too" lol

NOFX

I don't have any pics yet, but I have the full parts catalog for the Z600 coupe and the N600 sedan.