From lawnmowers to racing cars, Honda Collection Hall has it all. Located in the massive Twin Ring motor sports complex in the small town of Motegi in Tochigi Prefecture, this impressive museum makes it easy for anyone to track Honda's illustrious history, with multilingual pamphlets and English descriptions of the exhibits. Honda's massive edifice consists of two giant three level wings connected by a soaring atrium. The entrance foyer is particularly monumental, with a pair of racing bikes from 1954 mounted on a circular sculpture-like display stand. One of them is a 1954 Honda R125, the first domestically produced machine to compete overseas. It was carefully reconstructed from parts found in Brazil. On the sculpture's flip side is an Agusta, entered in the same 1954 Brazil International Race as the Honda. In the same area is the 1924 Curtiss Special, a 160km/h racer powered by a testosterone-busting 8237cc aircraft engine and built by Honda founder Soichiro Honda when he was an assistant working for another company. One of the Bugattis that inspired Honda when he saw them at the Tama River Speedway in 1936 stands next to the Curtiss.
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