GILLY
What, me worry?
Mr Honda had already campaigned inline multi's in GP racing. So had Count Agusta.
Sochiro was the first with the vision to make it available to the common man.
Herr Munch bolted a car engine (NSU) into a motorcycle frame, an old american hot-rod tradition.
And when exactly did Honda do that?
You'll have to excuse Friedel for not having the resources (or desire) to make the MUNCH Mammut something "the common man" could normally attain, these were all hand-built motorcycles, very exclusive and for the most part made to order.
Yes the Munch engine started out as an air-cooled NSU Prinz TTS engine, but required a lot of reworking and new castings to make it work. Not exactly like a hot rodder putting a 327 Chevy into a 32 Ford coupe, or an American V8 into a Boss Hoss. A lot of thought and engineering went in to those cycles, he is a true craftsman and engineer, not some cobbler.
Gilly