This picture doesn't look like much at first glance. It was sent to me from one of the employees of Honda who worked at this wearhouse where they tore apart and destroyed most of the 87 ATCs, and if not all of the 87 250Rs. They would remove the engines out of the crate trikes and crush the rest. You can see the 250R motors behind the crates on the top left. The R engines were available as complete crate engines through Honda for a while he claimed. He also said the ATCs that really caused the ban was the little 70s. They were even the first to be destroyed, before the 250Rs. And that's why the government cracked down on Honda so hard, he mentioned that government officials might have even taken some 87 Rs for themselves and kept them from the public. That might explain that one ad that mentions a "U.S. Serviceman." The adventures continue...
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