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11-23-2013, 03:00 AM
<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag">Motorsports</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/timewarp/" rel="tag">Classics</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/tokyo-motor-show/" rel="tag">Tokyo Motor Show</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/honda/" rel="tag">Honda</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/racing/" rel="tag">Racing</a></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bmw-r-ninet-tokyo-2013/#photo-1587918"><img alt="1964 Honda RA271" data-credit="Copyright 2013 Noah Joseph / AOL" data-mep="35314" src="http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/adam/9229e0ba6c965934ea32485f95ff3ca7/honda-f1-64-tokyo2013.jpg" /></a><br />
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Though most <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/f1/">Formula One</a> teams are based in the UK, they hail from places all around the world. There are teams from Russia, India and Malaysia, but in the 1960s, the idea of an F1 team coming from as far away as Japan was unthinkable in what was a predominantly European racing series. That's just the notion that <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/honda/">Honda</a> aimed to upset when it entered the car you see here in the 1964 Formula One World Championship.<br />
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With a 1.5-liter V12 dispensing 220 horsepower through a six-speed manual (its shifter necessitating the steering wheel mounted left-of-center), the 1964 Honda RA271 was built around an aluminum monocoque in a package that looks like a <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/formula+vee/">Formula Vee</a> car you could erect in your garage, but it state-of-the-art when it was built. Speaking of which, Honda only built one, and today it's part of the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/14/honda-collection-hall-google-street-view/">Honda Collection Hall</a> at Motegi, but the priceless racer made the trip down to Japan's capital so we could check it out at the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tokyo-motor-show/">Tokyo Motor Show</a>. Awfully nice of Honda, we'd say. Check it out in our gallery of live shots from the show floor above.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/22/honda-ra271-f1-tokyo-2013/">Honda speeds down memory lane with its first F1 car</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblog</a> on Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:29:00 EST. Please see our <a href="/rss-term-of-use/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/22/honda-ra271-f1-tokyo-2013/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/20774033/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/22/honda-ra271-f1-tokyo-2013/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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