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Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:58 am**

Very cool!

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:36 am**

It's interesting that the bike is shown with blackwall tires . This ad has a Sept. 1960 date on it . I have a half a dozen ads starting from 1963 to 1966 that show the bikes with whitewalls . Does anyone know if the earlier bikes we're originally sold with blackwall tires ? If so , when did Honda start using ww tires on the CA95's ?

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:49 am**

Boy they sure poured that girl all over that bike for that ad! That's scandalous. I bet the dealership put the extra shine on those wheels hubs and engine side covers for that photo.

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:23 pm**

I'll bet she is only 22 years older than the Dream, which puts it about 60 and her at 72!
Kinda makes you want to "Dream".........

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:54 pm**

Couple of more old ads:

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:05 am**

Lol Smithers, when it comes to the 60's she's pretty tame

Heck stuff now is pretty tame compared to that decade; XXX movies were at drive in theaters etc. I am not sure what happened to swing everything back towards the 50's after that...McCarthyism style propaganda?

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:10 am**

kartgreen wrote:It's interesting that the bike is shown with blackwall tires . This ad has a Sept. 1960 date on it . I have a half a dozen ads starting from 1963 to 1966 that show the bikes with whitewalls . Does anyone know if the earlier bikes we're originally sold with blackwall tires ? If so , when did Honda start using ww tires on the CA95's ?

From what I've read the 'early' CA95 had black wall tires right from the factory. The white walls came with the 'late' CA95, starting with frame number CA95-3106641 in 1963.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:17 am**

That same woman shows up at the bottom of the Honda brochure from the same period. Not exactly a Norton Girl, but she'll do. The CA95 Benly is at the top, listed at $460. (A CB92-R racer is listed at $520 ... where do I send my check?!)

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:06 am**

Yeah you're right JetBlack. But for Honda that was more than I expected is all. I'm sure there were way crazier ads with loose women back then. I love these old ads. At the last bike show I went to I bought an old Cycle mag from a couple that had an old misplaced shipping container full of original old magazines. The one I bought has a couple Hondas on the front and it is from 1965. I'll scan some of it in sometime here soon.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:11 pm**

This web site has tons of ads and specs from nearly every old Honda: http://www.vf750fd.com/vf750f/vintagehonda.html

Enjoy!

Posted: **Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:20 am**

Here's another classic ... a picture of Smithers on his Benly:

Posted: **Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:43 am**

Ha, ha...very cool!

Posted: **Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:42 pm**

Nah, Smithers has way more sense than to ride with his feet off the pegs; all hover style like that guy.

Posted: **Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:44 pm**

What would be awesome is if his fedora had a chin strap! lol Happy fourth everyone!

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