HONDA C71Z RARER THAN RARE
Nov 14, 2018
4 minutes
Story Jim Scaysbrook
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CMSNL and Compass Island.
One of these motorcycles was the model designated the C71Z – a machine so rare that Honda itself does not have one in its mighty Collection Hall at Suzuka. That’s because there is only one in existence, and that lives in Holland, in the vast collection assembled by the founder and boss of Consolidated Motor Spares (CMS) – the world’s largest independent supplier of parts for Japanese bikes – Mike Buttinger.
Buttinger has never shied away from a challenge. He bought his first ‘restoration project’ (a Honda C310) at the age of 11 and rebuilt it to
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