General Category > French Sandcasts
More and more surprising!! VIN-1014046/E-1014138
4pots1969:
Thank you KP for this support!! ;)
Steve Swan:
the vin font is honda font. i suppose someone could have had honda font metal stamps made up. then, to go to the trouble of finding several blank sandcast crank cases to stamp to make several machines up........... ? and then find the distinctive 9 hole transitional covers for these several cases...... ? some of these machines are completely original in appearance with undisturbed patina. i cannot imagine anyone contemporary or in 1970 putting together a SEVERAL fake sandcasts. we have found other details showing the otherwise peerless factory to be capable of some "inconsistency." i've been wrong before, but my bet is these machines are factory original. what we need, IS someone from France who knows the story to step up and tell the story or at least what they know of the story.
4pots1969:
Yes, who would have had the idéa to make fakes Sandcasts in 1970?
He would have needed to be maybe called Nostradamus..
Already.. Very few people knew that Sandcast had been made and there
was enough backward movement has this time to plan it..That do not hold the road!!
Steve Swan:
as collectors and archeologists say..... some provenance (provenir) would be hlepful to clarify/verify/substantiate the story of how French sandcasts came to exist.
benjixt:
Hi evrybody,
i'm sandcast enthusiast and owner ( VIN 2749) .i'm from France and i know the existence of this "French Sandcast " i'm 32 year but my Father got a brand new cb750 in March 1970 with sandcast case . vin 10160XX. with the " famous" clutch cover 9/10 holes.
i try to know more about this strange bike but difficult!!!
this sandcast are well know by the french
i'm think exactly like KP: that cases was spare parts and used in the regular production ( for France) ( maybe because the volume of sale in France was not enormous) and Honda France wasn't a prior Customer!! Honda japan decided to fix this "old case".....
It will stay a sandcast mistery
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