After Giacomo Agostini joined Yamaha at the end of 1973 he flew to Japan for the first tests with his new toys.

In an old file I rescued from the dump there were these brownish photo contact negatives that I try (I am an amateur) to make a little more nice for you. These pictures were taken when Giacomo Agostini visited Yamaha Motor in Japan for the very first time together with Rodney Gould. It must have been end 1973 or beginning 1974. Nobody in the world has these pictures, so they are absolutely unique. I will try to "work" the other ones later. Some pictures are even "reverse". I really do not know how to solve this !!!! And please realize that you look at a piece of history..............! It all happened 35 years ago. (All pictures re-worked now!)

The first picture shows a young Giacomo Agostini with an equally young Rodney Gould examining probably the contract! I will send them these pictures when I have done them all of course!

Giacomo Agostini's first visit to Japan