« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2013, 06:59:50 pm »
An old friend of ours Billy Snelling owned the CB77 Honda that twice won the Daytona Classic race with Tony Gill on board. That bike, which now lives in the Barber Museum was bored and stroked to 498cc using a Honda CB500T crank and (I think) aftermarket pistons made for a Kawasaki of some sort. The engine was built by Bill Horsman but it was improved on by Paul Bastic. Both Paul and Frank Stanborough are world leaders in getting these engines fast enough to win big races like Daytona so imagine if one of them built a 500cc Honda for pre 65 VMX....it'd be something to behold
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