Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ ad for the Newport 50 and the Premier Twin Jet 100 motorcycles. The ad has several pictures of young girls riding several different models of these popular motorcycles and the ad mentions a price of $219 for the Newport 50 which has the ability to run 200 miles per gallon of gas. The ad headline asks you to “Discover the Swinging World of Yamaha“ and the text claims that with one of these you can “Make like Columbus”. It also mentions that Yamaha makes “a dozen great superbikes”,
Source: April 15, 1966 Life magazine.
