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We seem to haveYamahas on our mind this issue and rightly so.

July 1 wasYamaha Motor Company’s 65th anniversary, and we here at Classic Racer felt it was worth examining a few facets of their six-and-a-half decades of brilliance.

Few know that their very first production machine, theYA-1 was

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