Manufacturer Name: Grand Prix
Year Produced: 1986
Production Location: Japan
Style: Stratocaster Copy
Color: Black and White
Neck Wood: Maple (1 Piece) w/ Walnut “Skunk Stripe”
Body Wood: Solid Alder
FretboardWood: Maple
Tuners: Heavy Duty Chrome
Pick-up Configuration: 3 Single-Coils (5-way switch)
Pick-up Manufacturer: Unbranded Dimarzio (USA)
Worth Mentioning: High Quality Nitro Neck, Fingerboard & Body – Floating tremolo – Single coil output is in humbucker range (7.6kohms+)

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Honda 760cc Engine

Believe it or not, fingerboard feels even nicer than it looks!

Not a whole lot of information available on these guitars, but from what I’ve gathered these were Hondo H-760 Strats that were ordered to be made by Hondo as a slightly upgraded version to their H-7600 model, which at the time was their highest-end Stratocaster model available (see the whole H-76 series and it’s many offshoots). The plug was pulled on the production, and the once Italian-based 60’s company Grand Prix ended up purchasing them from the factory & slapping their name on them.

Hondo 760b

Specifically with 80’s guitars (and especially Hondo’s) you’ll often find that the same exact model guitar as one of your own exists under a different company name, too! The literal only difference between most of these is the names that were printed on the headstocks. This happened so regularly for many reasons. The biggest reason being that a large portion of the “copy” guitar companies shared the same guitar factories. These companies would buy copy guitars already made at these guitar factories and put their name on them to sell. Most of the time the guitar companies weren’t bothered by other companies having the same product as them, and obviously the factories sure didn’t. There would often be plenty of unbranded leftovers, unpaid orders, or companies going in/out of business (see “Lawsuit era.)

I was told by the previous owner that there was less than 100 of the right handed black ones made, which seems to be the case as I’ve owned this since 2006 and have only come across one other owner online of the exact one. It seemed as if Grand Prix’s return in the 80’s was incredibly short-lived, but they did have a few other styled copies out that were also other more well-known Hondo’s – majority being quite rare.

Condition of the guitar is near mint, and pretty impressive for a guitar of it’s age. Finish is in great shape. Frets are in great shape. All original. Nitro finished neck/fingerboard feels incredibly nice and the fret wires couldn’t be anymore perfectly rounded. I dare say this is one of the softest and most comfortable fingerboards I’ve EVER had the pleasure of playing on.

Hondo H760

Great sound acoustically and electrically — easily above majority of the MIM Fender’s I’ve encountered. The Dimarzio made single coils really scream. I believe I remember measuring the bridge PUP around 7.6Kohms or so, so they are considerably hot for single coils. Very bright & crisp highs, but also has a nice subtle Les Paul esque growl to the low end. Although I’m very much a strat guy – I’m more specific to humbuckered “super strats” but this guitar keeps it’s place in my collection due to it’s very bright pretty traditional strat twang but with a little bit of ballsy thickness behind it. The all-black almost telecaster shaped head stock just screams 80’s and so does the guitar when plugged in. Dave Murray of Iron Maiden mid 80’s strat tone is what always comes to my head when asked to make a sound comparison.. Definitely a diamond in an 80’s world polluted with strat-copies!