![]() ![]() Completely obsolete now that MP3 and WMA are around but this thing was just fantastic in its time. Loved this thing to bits and had it for about 6 years before some mongrel flogged it. Double din with tilt face and all kinds of flash as features. Were moonbeams brand new, and was worth more than my car on its own. Haven't got a clue what the model number was but this thing was the ultimate head unit back in those days. Hard for the young-uns to understand but having an electric aerial was a display of luxury and excessiveness in the 1980s. Used to make a huge thumping sound when fully extending or retracting. I could sit and watch it go up and down for hours. Thought it was the bees-knees when we finished - damn those beer goggles. Semi 'Slot ported' cause we ran out of wood and couldn't cut angles with the hand saw. Ended up with a box around 4ft3 (not that we knew anything about reasonant frequencies / porting etc) sitting in the back of a Toyota Celica. ![]() Then the build process happened during which most of the beer got consumed. Used sellotape & cardboard from slabs of beer to model up the shape and make sure we could get it into the boot. This was built in a day using nothing but a blunt hand saw, a heap of screws and beer. Managed to blow it up a couple of times but it was cheap to repair and lasted about 3 years before being put into retirement. The whole car rattled and shook and it was like nothing else on the roads. This was mid/late 80s and car audio was in its infancy. My first car sub, a Vifa 15" 8ohm house speaker that I wired up to a JVC 60rmsx2 amp. ![]() In those days it was impressive - well as impressive as anything can be with nothing but mid and treble blast. What made this thing so good was that I managed to connect 16 separate coax speakers to it and had total surround sound in my Escrot van. The digital display still worked but regardless of what frequency it showed, the radio was constantly tuned to the classical music channel - 92.6FM back in those days. Unfortunately I wired it up wrong (didn't have a multi-tester back in those days) and shorted something out, frying the tuner part. Can't remember the model number but it was one of the first with a digital tuner. My first Pioneer head unit - tape/cassette (CD's weren't invented then). Other popular models you may be familiar with include the CRF, Rebel, Ruckus, Shadow, and VTX.Hope this isn't a hijack but you also gotta list up some of the favorite stuff you've owned.ĭid this on another forum a couple of years back so I'll kick it off: Honda ended production of the Gold Wing in 2009. It was one of the first production models fitted with a fuel pump. Perhaps the most recognized is the iconic Gold Wing, introduced in the US in 1975. The company offers a number of well-known names in bikes. They make mopeds and light motorcycles, motorcycle models, off-road models, dual-purpose models, motocross models, scooters, racing models, and all-terrain vehicles. Today, Honda produces a broad array of motorcycles of every class. It was in 1949 that they manufactured their first real motorcycle with a 98 cc two-stroke motor. Honda Motorcycles started out as bicycles with two-stroke motors grafted onto them. ![]() Today, the company makes industry-leading motorcycles in nearly every category. The Honda cycles of this era were primarily known for competing on racetracks around the world. It was in the 1960s that these inexpensive cycles really rose to the height of popularity. Soon after the company started manufacturing Honda Motorcycles. Honda's business began as a producer of piston rings. During this time, the Japanese economy was recovering from World War II. Honda was founded in 1940s Japan by Soichiro Honda. ![]()
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