A little off subject, but one of the players in the article (Jerry Griffith) had a hand in the frames for the Kenny Robert Penton. I was working with the race team when this story took place. When we (Honda) returned from Daytona that year and word of the RS750 had leaked out we had over a 100 people leave messages at Team Honda for information on how to purchase a RS 750. Just for history sake the first engines were priced at $25,000 and we had people wanting them.....that was/is a lot of money.
I hope you enjoy the article even though it is about Honda.
http://www.motohistory.net/featuredstory/honda_feature_despain.html
Ron Carbaugh
That's cool! You gotta love it when a plan comes together. Mike
Michael R. Winter
I enjoy rebuilding and appreciating Pentons!
1974 250 HS Pentons-1980 KTM 175-400'S
Great story!Thanks for posting Ron.When Honda goes racing they go to win that's for sure.
Ric
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