Ray Hamman, 75, a retired information technology executive living in Clarkston, Mich., on his 1972 Honda Z600, as told to A.J. Baime.
My wife, Joan, had a Volkswagen when we got married—an unreliable VW for whatever reason. One time we were on a trip, driving from where we lived in Ohio to Denver, to visit her brother. We saw this little yellow vehicle on the highway. She said, “Hey, look at that cute little car.” I said, “Yeah, I wonder what it is?”
We got close enough and saw that it was a Honda Z600. We had to replace my wife’s VW, so when we got home, I went on a mission to find a Honda. In February 1973, a few weeks after our Denver trip, I found a yellow 1972 Honda just like the one we had seen, at the Hugh White Chevrolet dealership in Columbus, Ohio. It cost $1,759, plus $69 for the AM radio, $74 in taxes, and $12 for registration. So $1,914 out the door.
At the time, few people had heard of a Honda car. Honda motorcycles were hot, and in fact, this car had basically a two-cylinder, roughly 30-horsepower, 600-cubic centimeter motorcycle engine. The 600 series (starting with the N600 and later the Z600) was the first mass-market Honda ever imported into the U.S. My car got 35 to 40 miles a gallon—very good for the time.
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