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HONDA COMES TO AUSTRALIA, PART 2 WAS LESTER THE FIRST TO SELL A HONDA OUTSIDE JAPAN? WORDS LESTER MORRIS

Honda arrived in Australia very quietly in very, very small numbers, to be followed almost at once by that bunch of quiet but determined Japanese who – I was later to learn – visited every suburban motorcycle shop in Sydney to deliver their pile of colour brochures and thus create interest before we were finally advised of the marque’s quiet arrival in Sydney.