TAMIYA 1/12 full view Honda NSR500 '84

Plastic bike model assembly kit

[Observation of upside-down layout of innovation with clear cowl]
In 1983, Honda won the Road Race World Championship title with the NS500 equipped with a 2-stroke V-type 3-cylinder engine, but in order to compete against rivals that had already introduced four cylinders, the V-type 4 for the next year We were developing the NSR 500 equipped with a cylinder engine. Moreover, the creative structure will surprise the world. A uniaxial crank V4 engine is mounted on an aluminum frame, which later develops into a twin spar frame, and an exhaust chamber at the upper part, and a fuel tank at the lower part. It was born. This year, F. Spencer won 3 and R. Mamola had 1 win and proved to have a high potential that is not only strange. An ambitious machine full of Honda's challenge spirit, in which the positions of the exhaust pipe and fuel tank are reversed from the normal machine. It is a model of the clear cowl specification that you can observe its peculiar configuration closely.

(From the Tamiya website)