Honda Collection Hall museum – Part 2

When we last left off with our Honda Collection Hall museum coverage, we barely dipped our toes into the massive display that is everything Honda. With three floors, numerous cars and countless motorcycles, you didn’t think we’d leave you hanging, right?

Next to the lobby, the Honda Collection Hall's first floor is filled with concepts and design studies

The Restoration Room can be found just outside the Honda Collection Hall lobby. This CVCC had just been finished up and taken around the test course

If you ever find yourself in Tochigi, Japan or at Twin Ring Motegi raceway, do yourself a favor and visit Honda’s home racetrack, which also doubles as a car enthusiast’s amusement park. This time we go a little further into the hall, showcasing some more racing machines from the Honda Collection Hall as well as a glimpse of the restoration center.

A large viewing window has been placed in the front of the Restoration Room, allowing visitors to watch mechanics service anything from JGTC racecars to vintage motorcycles

The second floor houses a wing for production Honda motorcycles and a wing for production cars. The place is chock full of Honda history

Found outside of the back door, right outside the lobby, the restoration center features a live crew of mechanics who constantly service the rotating fleet of machines found in the Collection Hall. A clear viewing window offers visitors a chance to see the work in progress, and a short test track lies within view of the restoration area.

Honda founder Soichiro Honda started off as a motorized bicycle/motorcycle maker. This is just one of the products that would eventually lead to the company of today. Is this the S2000's great grandfather?

Honda has also had great success with racing motorcycles, as can be seen by the numerous sport bikes on display

Every car in the Honda Collection Hall is pristine and fully restored. If any of the JGTC or F1 machines on display had battle scars or tire donuts at some point, you’d never know it. Since the cars are constantly maintained, rotated and brought down to the restoration center, displays are changing and two separate visits could prove to be completely different. Visit the Honda Collection Hall on a Tuesday and you might catch the Le Mans NSX or a Honda S2000. Come back two weeks later and you could find yourself staring at Senna’s McLaren-Honda. You just never know what you’ll find.

Source
Honda Worldwide
world.honda.com/collection-hall

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One of the coolest displays that we've seen yet in a car museum, this board features a pair of headphones. Press the right numbers into the keypad and you'll hear genuine recordings of the racing cars and motorcycles in action. Hearing the onboard sounds of the late 1980s F1 cars is awesome to say the least

1967 V12-powered Honda RA300, driven by John Surtees

1968 V12-powered Honda RA301, also driven by John Surtees

Honda built this twin-turbocharged V6 NSX GT1 for the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans. The car showed impressive speed but this particular chassis did not finish the entire race

In our opinion, the late 1980s/early 1990s McLaren F1 cars are some of the most classic and distinctive formula cars ever. Aggresive in design and yet lacking all the aerodynamic wizardry of today, the cars look every bit like a racecar should

Team Kunimitsu's #84 naturally aspirated GT2-class Honda NSX contested the 1995 24 Hours of Lemans and took the class win

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