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SOHC.co.uk Forums => Anorak's Corner => Topic started by: DomP on December 29, 2025, 10:02:07 PM
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I found this original Honda poster on Ebay a few years ago, does anyone else have one or seen it before?
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Used to have a 750 one on wall of workshop at Mead and Tomkinson, never seen the 500 one
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Pretty cool poster.
I love drawings of engines like this. Before I was even a bike owner they published similar for different engine in "Motorcycle" newspaper which my dad had delivered.
I understood a lot just from those, fascinating details for me.
Nice to have one like that of a bike you own :)
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Ive tried finding one for my xs650 but not found one yet
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I bought 11 Triumph engine posters at an auction a while back, only to find that they were all the same! 500 unit twin engine as fitted to my Tiger 100.
I've got one on the garage wall and still have a few spare. 😁
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I have an SS125 'Trader Sheet' Poster and a similar one for the CB92 Benly 'Super Sport'
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Not posters, nor any engine drawings, but I purchased vector drawings of a bike once from these guys... various formats including AutoCad where you can print at any scale.....
https://www.the-blueprints.com/
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I have one for the Laverda Jota Engine as an exploded diagramme but it is in not very good condition and being double sided and A1 size it is not really suitable to frame.
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There were 2 of them Dom. The oil lube diagram and another which iirc was a detailed engine construction diagram. Both of mine came mounted on a heavy hardboard backing with the diagram covered in a film of laminate.
Got mine when the dealership I was working at were throwing them out and I asked if I could have them.
Unfortunately both were wrecked when the garage roof collapsed one year and water got into the backing and just blew it apart. Mine were also in colour btw.
They were about 3ft wide by 2ft deep, each.
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Yes these line drawings of engines are really nice, I have a couple of the CBX 1000 engine they are about 18” x 18” , I think they are just copies but still nice to have.
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The discussion on engine posters reminded me of a unique poster I used to own of an Opel Aero GT that never made it into production. It was a press release type poster of a the Aero version with a sectional view of the body & engine IIRC.
It differed from the Opel GT model as it was more like the Lotus Europa at the rear end.
Sadly after my divorce in 1978 the poster was lost.
The Opel GT car made by Opel in LHD only, they had to be collected from Harwich in person by the retailing dealership. I was lucky enough to pick two up from the port and drive them back to Derby. They had popup headlamps that rotated by means of a manual lever that looked like a handbrake! They did not flip up and down like a Lotus but rotated sideways on a vertical pivot. www.carandclassic.com/la/C1903296
They were imported into the UK mainly for US personnel, at bases as well as to employees of General Motors Companies of old like Fridgidare, RR & Associates in Derby etc that built reactors for submarines. Very few were bought by private UK buyers due to it being LHD.
It would have looked good on my garage wall today.https://flic.kr/p/nY8n6w
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They fettled an example of such on Wheeler dealers USA iteration I believe (it's that model) Ted.
Interesting your experience of it, and quite a individual design too.
Their's was a dark metallic green one, with various knocks and running inconsistencies. A reasonably lucid view of it on their program.
A few publications had someone draw interesting vehicles in that period, gave decent insight to the designs of the times.
I watch an American content on YT of a guy who runs a scrap/recycle business, dismantling various car engines, mostly with catastrophic failure, all of which are really informative as to limitations and failure node that occur.