I bought one new from Anderson's Honda in Pontiac Michigan in 1971 for 1455.00 out the door ! My first new car , it would do 83 mph flat out and had an auxillary pull rope starter under the hood ! I put 52,000 miles on it and the fenders rusted off it ! I loved that car !
Very cool car ! I remember when my Dad bought this car brand new in 1972 !! We used to fit the whole family of 6 in it! My mom and dad and little brother in my moms lap in the front and my 2 sisters and I in the back! We were all little kids then. People would always laugh when they saw all of us getting out of the car at the store etc. We had this car until 1992 here in Homestead, FL until Hurricane Andrew wiped out the town. Even after that it was still in the drive way with the windows all smashed . It was a great fun car ! Good memories!
Great find! My dad bought this car dirt cheap for my mom to learn how to drive, back in '75 or '76. He also had to rebuild the engine and paint it. For the engine pull he just threw a rope and pully over the rafters and for paint he used a brush, bright yellow no less. The next car my mom got was a Ford Pinto which I wouldn't call a step up. Those were the days.
I am portuguese and the N600 model was my first car in 1972. Always excelent. I sold it three years later with about 85,000 Km, when I decide to go to Brazil after the comunist movements arose in Portugal in 1975. As I couldn't take it with me I had to sell it but I was very sad because I loved it very much.!
I bought a Honda N600 back in 1971 when I was stationed in San Bernardino Ca at Norton Air Force base mine was more like Cherry Red in color and I loved it.
This was also my first car in HS. Dad bought it used and original. We got it running well and I drove it all around Abilene, TX about 1975. I graduated in 1978, believe it was like a 1969 model. Went to my sister when I bought my car. Would go 60 mph with ease always got about 55 mpg. Fastest I ever had it was 75 mph, driving by myself about 5 feet behind a semi trucks back bumper draft. The dash and whole car shook like crazy 😂. Stupid highschool boy, but what memories.😊 Oh, in the HS parking lot the guys would put it up over the curb on the walkway. I could lift and push it by myself front side and then back side of the walkway and back into the parking lot. Gravel parking lot, the others would do donuts in the rear wheel cars. In second gear I could do a huge donut around all their cars. For a tight donut I'd use reverse, front wheel drive equals small donut. 😂
In 1982, I bought a 1972 Honda 600 Coupe. Avocado green, a beautiful finish. It had repeated electrical issues, but it was the most fun of any car I have ever driven. Just like a go-kart, with even 45mph seeming like you are going a lot faster. A friend of mine called it "the lawnmower" because of its 2-cylinder engine.
I had a Honda 600 sedan. I learned how to work on them as a mechanic. I could drop an engine in :45 minutes flat. I even stocked more parts than the Honda dealer in Oklahoma City
My first car as a young man in Australia. Our country also got the "base" model N360. Don't take this as authoritative advice, but my Honda mechanic told me to take the fan belt off during the winter. An extra 1/2hp of so. I always imagined it made a difference! Great to see one driving around. Great to see a young man appreciating it and looking after it.
Of all the cars I have ever owned the Honda 600 Sedan and the Honda 600 Coupe have to be my all time favorites. They were fun, innovative and surprisingly roomy.
My dad rented one of these for a day so I could learn to use a clutch. I loved that goofy shifter. Dad thought it was klutzy. Off on a slight tangent - the owner mentioned that the fan belt makes a 90 degree turn, and he has never seen that before. I lived in England in the early 80's, and had a Peugeot 304 wagon with a fan belt that made a 90 degree turn. The engine was transverse, and the fan sat right behind the radiator where it would be on the front of a longitudinal engine. There were two extra pulleys to bend the belt.
The n600 was my 1st car. Was in El Paso Tx, @1 mile up, so power was way down and HOT. It was 1973 and junior in high school, the car stood out. A few times found the N600 turned sideways. I'd just picked up the rear end and straightened it out. Funniest was when football players picked up back end and told me to gun it. I told them they didn't want me to do that but they insisted. Guess they needed a lesson about front wheel drive. Best was with the oil embargo going on, getting 4x to 5x the gas mileage of regular cars of those days was good.
A workmate had one back then. At the time I lived in a place that had very cold winters. We went everywhere in that little car. It would do 70mph all day, and the heater worked really well. I seem to remember his model did not have synchros.
I remember the Honda N600 sedans and Z600 coupes the Z600 intrigued me when I was shopping for my very first brand new car in 1972. I thought it was the coolest looking little car..it had the nickname of 'TV' or 'aquarium window' in deference to the appearance of the rear window with that thick surround frame around the rear window. Then the original 1973 Honda Civic hit the U.S. market with twice the engine displacement of the 600 series I read all the reviews in car magazines at the time, went for a test drive in one and that was that..my first brand new car. I still miss that little Honda Civic hatchback fast forward to now I recently purchased a used 2017 Honda Fit primarily because of it's great fuel mileage economy and amazing amount of interior room but also because it's the closest I can come in a modern car to that 1973 Civic I had. Still think those N600 and Z600's are cool though.
Corvair's had a 90 degree turn in the belt that drove the cooling fan mounted on top of the engine. Love these little Honda's, seriously considered buying on in 1972. The local Pontiac dealer in Bedford Ohio sold them.
@@jamesbrown3352 In 1971 it was called Jay Pontiac. I worked a summer at the Alamo Apartments Hotel, on Broadway near Rockside. The owner was Stan Mizel who I believe was also owner of Jay Pontiac.
Some years past, while residing in Paris (France ), mes amis, a BF owned one of those motorcars.Although I did pilote it about, I didn't much like the shifter placement.
I had the same exact car. When I got rid of it I traded it for a 1st year YZ 125 monoshock dirt bike and a 1961 Dodge pioneer and some cash. Wish I had all three of them now.
There are some ways I could believe he paid $2400 for this car, or even $4800. 1) the people who sold it were totally unaware of its value or 2) they just decided to honor an anonymous young man with a medium sized win of the lottery. In the USA, this car should sell for close to $20,000.
sadly one day in so cal 1979 my job was to call 2 n see who would give us the most to remove the dead ones from our bellflower dealership no mechs but me knew how to work on m n no one wanted them i still have mine norm reeves honda
i probably forgot more @ those than anyone in the world i started with honda in 73 with the civics but even in ohio some of those where still @ i saw one at a solon ohio car show last yr mine will beout next yr had to deal with fuel tank issue as it sat for ten years in a trailer......you know 1 of the shoemakers kids id like to send you a pick of my el ca honda how got an email ill try @@TwoGuysandaRide
i saw the first fleet delivery driving by late one evening ,stoped had to have one on the spot , 1972 . price ? $1500.00didn't have cash on me, gave my cash in my pocket ,financed it for 6 months. neve had aproblem best car i've ever owned. i installed MINI MANIA racing part +accesorieswheels tires rcacy paint dealer taught me how to replace drive belts. love that car & i have owned over 80 cars of every type & cost .people would ask if it was a MINI , i,d say it was a honda car at that time ahonda was amotorcycle. still love that honda car......i have tons of great & funny stoies about this car..frank......
Your Honda 600 has a 1971 brake booster on it, may be registered as a '72 but was actually made 9/71. There's more than 500 cars, people like me won't give up our serial numbers :-)
I would love to have one of these...I almost bought one when I lived in Ventura,CA, in 1983. But it needed more work than I was able to do even though I had my HONDA CB400SS apart and I know that I could have fixed the n600 easily. All that I could find wrong with the little car was that 3rd gear wasn't working and the engine/transmission case needed to be split open to get to the gear. I wish that I had one tthose little cars now.
When the car in this video was made in September 1971, I was just going back to Hi School in my junior class and I was driving my 1967 Cougar..,wow, I feel SO OLD!
I bought one of these new out the door 1400 or so dollars and it was a great little car in the snow with the front wheel drive ! I hit a great dane that ran in front of me going 35 or 40 and the dog kept running but went up on 2 wheels for maybe 50 ft ,got it stopped and that dog was going like hell thru a field ,looked for him and never found him hope he made it I think I just grazed him as it happened on a corner didnt do any damage to the car but I had to change my pants!
I just picked up a Orange color 600 honda too it came with an extra engine and frame and rear axle and gas tank and some kind of guard and some spare shock tower it it your old one ,,, I wonder if my car is this car thanks BigAl California let me know thanks praise Jesus Christ grace amen 🙏
The automatic only came in the 600 sedan , not the Z Coupe , it only came in four speed manual. Look at Jay Leno's video on the Z Honda coupe. Kevin Phoenix
I bought one new from Anderson's Honda in Pontiac Michigan in 1971 for 1455.00 out the door ! My first new car , it would do 83 mph flat out and had an auxillary pull rope starter under the hood ! I put 52,000 miles on it and the fenders rusted off it ! I loved that car !
Thanks for sharing and for watching!
Such a cool little car.
Yes it is, thanks for watching!
Very knowledgeable owner and a great custodian for it! I’ve owned mine for 40 years! I hope he has many happy miles.
Wow! That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
That’s incredible. I loved mine.
Hey Scott ! What's shakin? I got real booster seals, I can rebuild your booster now ;-)
Very cool car ! I remember when my Dad bought this car brand new in 1972 !! We used to fit the whole family of 6 in it! My mom and dad and little brother in my moms lap in the front and my 2 sisters and I in the back! We were all little kids then. People would always laugh when they saw all of us getting out of the car at the store etc. We had this car until 1992 here in Homestead, FL until Hurricane Andrew wiped out the town. Even after that it was still in the drive way with the windows all smashed . It was a great fun car ! Good memories!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching
Great find! My dad bought this car dirt cheap for my mom to learn how to drive, back in '75 or '76. He also had to rebuild the engine and paint it. For the engine pull he just threw a rope and pully over the rafters and for paint he used a brush, bright yellow no less. The next car my mom got was a Ford Pinto which I wouldn't call a step up. Those were the days.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing
I am portuguese and the N600 model was my first car in 1972. Always excelent. I sold it three years later with about 85,000 Km, when I decide to go to Brazil after the comunist movements arose in Portugal in 1975. As I couldn't take it with me I had to sell it but I was very sad because I loved it very much.!
Thats an awesome story. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
I had a sedan and coupe new sadly I sold them in '78.. big mistake.. yes. and fun to drive !
I bought a Honda N600 back in 1971 when I was stationed in San Bernardino Ca at Norton Air Force base mine was more like Cherry Red in color and I loved it.
Awesome, thanks for sharing and thanks for watching
LOL. I've got one of these. Been sitting in my shed since the mid 80's. Maybe time to drag it out. Was running when parked. interesting video.
That’s awesome. Thanks for watching
This was also my first car in HS. Dad bought it used and original. We got it running well and I drove it all around Abilene, TX about 1975. I graduated in 1978, believe it was like a 1969 model.
Went to my sister when I bought my car.
Would go 60 mph with ease always got about 55 mpg.
Fastest I ever had it was 75 mph, driving by myself about 5 feet behind a semi trucks back bumper draft. The dash and whole car shook like crazy 😂.
Stupid highschool boy, but what memories.😊
Oh, in the HS parking lot the guys would put it up over the curb on the walkway. I could lift and push it by myself front side and then back side of the walkway and back into the parking lot.
Gravel parking lot, the others would do donuts in the rear wheel cars. In second gear I could do a huge donut around all their cars. For a tight donut I'd use reverse, front wheel drive equals small donut. 😂
mmmmm donuts! Thanks for sharing!
In 1982, I bought a 1972 Honda 600 Coupe. Avocado green, a beautiful finish. It had repeated electrical issues, but it was the most fun of any car I have ever driven. Just like a go-kart, with even 45mph seeming like you are going a lot faster. A friend of mine called it "the lawnmower" because of its 2-cylinder engine.
Go-kart for sure!
I had one in high school. 1979. It was a great little car..it would catch second gear
Thanks for sharing and for watching!
I had a Honda 600 sedan. I learned how to work on them as a mechanic. I could drop an engine in :45 minutes flat. I even stocked more parts than the Honda dealer in Oklahoma City
Thanks for sharing
My first car as a young man in Australia. Our country also got the "base" model N360. Don't take this as authoritative advice, but my Honda mechanic told me to take the fan belt off during the winter. An extra 1/2hp of so. I always imagined it made a difference! Great to see one driving around. Great to see a young man appreciating it and looking after it.
Great story, thanks for sharing!
I remember a Honda globe😂when I was a young person around the 70’s.
Thanks for sharing
Of all the cars I have ever owned the Honda 600 Sedan and the Honda 600 Coupe have to be my all time favorites. They were fun, innovative and surprisingly roomy.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing
I just bought one of these and I'm so excited! Thanks for the video. Didn't realize there were only 500 or so left in the US.
Congratulations. It’s a cool rate car. Enjoy! Thanks for watching
Loved mine pulled wheelies in reverse.
Sweet!! Thanks for watching and for sharing!
My brother got one in 1969 and one in 1972. Great cars.
Yeah, these are too cool! Thanks for watching
First saw these at Guy Martin Olds in Woodland Hills, CA when my dad and I were out looking at cars. Could not believe how tiny they were.
Wow, nice! Thanks for sharing. Yeah, they are very small. Just think, they replaced it with a “bigger” car...the original Civic. Thanks for watching
and can we bring it head to head to '62 mini cooper? they both looks so similar by glimpse..
My dad rented one of these for a day so I could learn to use a clutch. I loved that goofy shifter. Dad thought it was klutzy. Off on a slight tangent - the owner mentioned that the fan belt makes a 90 degree turn, and he has never seen that before. I lived in England in the early 80's, and had a Peugeot 304 wagon with a fan belt that made a 90 degree turn. The engine was transverse, and the fan sat right behind the radiator where it would be on the front of a longitudinal engine. There were two extra pulleys to bend the belt.
Awesome thanks for sharing. The Chevy Corvair also had a fan belt with a 90 degree turn.
It's an amazing little car
It’s cool to look back to see Honda’s fist US imported car and to realize how far they’ve come. Thanks for watching
@@TwoGuysandaRide no problem Damon's one of my staff at the group home I live in so I see it once in awhile
Jesse Kolb he’s a cool guy with a cool car
I seen one of these at a car show Saturday.
Yellow.
I'm not tall but felt like I was standing next to it 😆
It’s pretty small but cute and fun to drive.
I have two of them , makes me want to pull it out and get them running
That’s cool, wow 2? Awesome. Thanks for watching
So cool! I once worked for Honda new
Zealand and worked on some real nice cars
But this is so awesome! Do more Honda’s!
Thanks and yes, this one is awesome! Thanks for watching
Our local pizza shop had a few of these for delivery. The rear window had the oversize rubber molding
Cousimanos 🍕 Pizza- South Gate CA.
That’s a pretty cool delivery car. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching
The n600 was my 1st car. Was in El Paso Tx, @1 mile up, so power was way down and HOT. It was 1973 and junior in high school, the car stood out. A few times found the N600 turned sideways. I'd just picked up the rear end and straightened it out. Funniest was when football players picked up back end and told me to gun it. I told them they didn't want me to do that but they insisted. Guess they needed a lesson about front wheel drive. Best was with the oil embargo going on, getting 4x to 5x the gas mileage of regular cars of those days was good.
LOL...thanks for sharing!
A workmate had one back then. At the time I lived in a place that had very cold winters. We went everywhere in that little car. It would do 70mph all day, and the heater worked really well. I seem to remember his model did not have synchros.
It seems like a pretty fun little car. Thanks for sharing
i have one and i created honda hospital in 1977 so cal to ohio since 79
That’s awesome, thanks for watching!
I love you two guys look absolutely massive next to the little N600..it made me laugh lol
It is a very small car. Thanks for watching
I remember the Honda N600 sedans and Z600 coupes the Z600 intrigued me when I was shopping for my very first brand new car in 1972. I thought it was the coolest looking little car..it had the nickname of 'TV' or 'aquarium window' in deference to the appearance of the rear window with that thick surround frame around the rear window. Then the original 1973 Honda Civic hit the U.S. market with twice the engine displacement of the 600 series I read all the reviews in car magazines at the time, went for a test drive in one and that was that..my first brand new car. I still miss that little Honda Civic hatchback fast forward to now I recently purchased a used 2017 Honda Fit primarily because of it's great fuel mileage economy and amazing amount of interior room but also because it's the closest I can come in a modern car to that 1973 Civic I had. Still think those N600 and Z600's are cool though.
Cool story, thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
My N600 was built the same month!
Awesome thanks for watching!
Cool! I love those. FYI...Corvairs have a fan belt that twists 90 degrees also.
Yes they do, I see you know your car trivia! Thanks for watching
Corvair's had a 90 degree turn in the belt that drove the cooling fan mounted on top of the engine. Love these little Honda's, seriously considered buying on in 1972. The local Pontiac dealer in Bedford Ohio sold them.
Yeah I told him about the Corvairs belt off camera. He’s young so I’m sure he’s never seen the engine bay of a Corvair. Thanks for watching
Jay Honda in Bedford, OH still has one (AZ600) on display.
@@jamesbrown3352 In 1971 it was called Jay Pontiac. I worked a summer at the Alamo Apartments Hotel, on Broadway near Rockside. The owner was Stan Mizel who I believe was also owner of Jay Pontiac.
Some years past, while residing in Paris (France ), mes amis, a BF owned one of those motorcars.Although I did pilote it about, I didn't much like the shifter placement.
Thanks for watching!
Very pretty car🥰
Thank you 🤗
$2400 is a smoking deal! Give me two for that price! I bought mine in 2020 for $4650.
I’d pay $4600 for one! These are rare and so cool!
I had the same exact car. When I got rid of it I traded it for a 1st year YZ 125 monoshock dirt bike and a 1961 Dodge pioneer and some cash. Wish I had all three of them now.
Those are the ones that got away
There are some ways I could believe he paid $2400 for this car, or even $4800. 1) the people who sold it were totally unaware of its value or 2) they just decided to honor an anonymous young man with a medium sized win of the lottery. In the USA, this car should sell for close to $20,000.
He definitely got the deal of a lifetime.
If you are interested on one a few hours ago I met a guy that has one for sale in gardena California for $5000. Needs lots of work. I have video
sadly one day in so cal 1979 my job was to call 2 n see who would give us the most to remove the dead ones from our bellflower dealership no mechs but me knew how to work on m n no one wanted them i still have mine norm reeves honda
Thanks for sharing, that’s cool that you still have yours. Thanks for watching!
i probably forgot more @ those than anyone in the world i started with honda in 73 with the civics but even in ohio some of those where still @ i saw one at a solon ohio car show last yr mine will beout next yr had to deal with fuel tank issue as it sat for ten years in a trailer......you know 1 of the shoemakers kids id like to send you a pick of my el ca honda how got an email ill try @@TwoGuysandaRide
i saw the first fleet delivery driving by late one evening ,stoped had to have one on the spot , 1972 . price ? $1500.00didn't have cash on me, gave my cash in my pocket ,financed it for 6 months. neve had aproblem best car i've ever owned. i installed MINI MANIA racing part +accesorieswheels tires rcacy paint dealer taught me how to replace drive belts. love that car & i have owned over 80 cars of every type & cost .people would ask if it was a MINI , i,d say it was a honda car at that time ahonda was amotorcycle. still love that honda car......i have tons of great & funny stoies about this car..frank......
Wow, awesome story! How long did you keep it and I’m sure you wish you still owned it. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching
We had this car.
I’d love to own one! Thanks for watching
Your Honda 600 has a 1971 brake booster on it, may be registered as a '72 but was actually made 9/71. There's more than 500 cars, people like me won't give up our serial numbers :-)
Cool information! Thanks for watching
cool car, there is one for sale for 450 for parts. complete car
Very Cool!
Cool video !!!
It’s a really cool car too. Thanks for watching
College ride. Great Handling gas mileage in 1983. Fun!!
Right on!
600cc2気筒トルクあって楽しい走りでしょうね。👍
It is thanks for watching!
Used the silver wing moter.
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I would love to have one of these...I almost bought one when I lived in Ventura,CA, in 1983. But it needed more work than I was able to do even though I had my HONDA CB400SS apart and I know that I could have fixed the n600 easily. All that I could find wrong with the little car was that 3rd gear wasn't working and the engine/transmission case needed to be split open to get to the gear. I wish that I had one tthose little cars now.
When the car in this video was made in September 1971, I was just going back to Hi School in my junior class and I was driving my 1967 Cougar..,wow, I feel SO OLD!
Hey, we’re right there with you on the age issue. Yeah, these are cool little cars and it’s fun to see a young guy bought it. Thanks for watching
So cool
I bought one of these new out the door 1400 or so dollars and it was a great little car in the snow with the front wheel drive ! I hit a great dane that ran in front of me going 35 or 40 and the dog kept running but went up on 2 wheels for maybe 50 ft ,got it stopped and that dog was going like hell thru a field ,looked for him and never found him hope he made it I think I just grazed him as it happened on a corner didnt do any damage to the car but I had to change my pants!
lol…wow… a Great Dane….usually you hear about a deer and not a dog! Thanks for sharing!
The Japanese mini
True. Thanks for watching
My first car. Except it was white.
Awesome first car!
They laughed then but most modern car engines are designed a lot like this now.
True
It looks like a mix of a classic mini and a fiat 126 in my opinion.
I can see that. Thanks for watching
Just seen a 68 for sale in little Rock Arkansas
Sweet! I’d buy it
4 my foot I got 2 of them
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That's a good price
Yeah, he got a great deal on a very limited run class. Thanks for watching
Same as 450 motorcycle engine that could easily rev 10,000rpms. They use roller bearings for mains.
Thanks for watching
I wonder how much these cars actually cost. If someone knows please let me know.
He bought his used for $4500. Not sure if the original cost from Honda
He bought his used for $4500. Not sure if the original cost from Honda. Thanks for watching
@@TwoGuysandaRide he paid $2,400
1499 I wanna say
I love this car. I would like to have one of those.
sadly the smurf race died off so they stopped production.
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I just picked up a Orange color 600 honda too it came with an extra engine and frame and rear axle and gas tank and some kind of guard and some spare shock tower it it your old one ,,, I wonder if my car is this car thanks BigAl California let me know thanks praise Jesus Christ grace amen 🙏
He still owes his but certainly hold on to yours as they didnt make very many in the first place. Thanks for watching
I still own mine 👍🏼💪🏼
The automatic only came
in the 600 sedan , not the
Z Coupe , it only came in
four speed manual.
Look at Jay Leno's video on the Z Honda coupe.
Kevin Phoenix
Ok
Smaller than original mini cooper of same year.
So very small!
Very very cool. Love Fiat but you not do it in a 128
Thanks for watching!
is this a 2 cylinder motor? the car looks bigger than a smart car
It’s a derivative of a Honda Motorcycle engine
Stole it!
Yup
Hi. Please contact owner I'll be interested in that car for $10K if no rot/rust/damage and all original
Sorry, we don’t have his contact information
Drive it ffs
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