Tuffy Grand Rapids (28th St.) in Grand Rapids is your preferred Honda repair facility. We specialize in everything from major repairs to general routine maintenance. Your Honda is in great hands at Tuffy Grand Rapids (28th St.) in Grand Rapids.
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Tuffy Grand Rapids (28th St.) in Grand Rapids also services the needs of East Grand Rapids , Georgetown, Grandville, Kentwood , Wyoming.
From a young age, Honda's founder, Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō)
(November 17, 1906 – August 5, 1991) had a great interest in
automobiles. He worked as a mechanic at a Japanese tuning shop, Art
Shokai, where he tuned cars and entered them in races. A self-taught
engineer, he later worked on a piston design which he hoped to sell to Toyota.
The first drafts of his design were rejected, and Soichiro worked
painstakingly to perfect the design, even going back to school and
pawning his wife's jewelry for collateral. Eventually, he won a contract
with Toyota and built a factory to construct pistons for them, which
was destroyed in an earthquake. Due to a gasoline shortage during World War II,
Honda was unable to use his car, and his novel idea of attaching a
small engine to his bicycle attracted much curiosity. He then
established the Honda Technical Research Institute in Hamamatsu,
Japan, to develop and produce small 2-cycle motorbike engines. Calling
upon 18,000 bicycle shop owners across Japan to take part in
revitalizing a nation torn apart by war, Soichiro received enough
capital to engineer his first motorcycle, the Honda Cub. This marked the
beginning of Honda Motor Company, which would grow a short time later
to be the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles by 1964.