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Restoration of Sandcast #97 / Re: Restoration of Sandcast #97
« on: February 19, 2020, 06:58:05 pm »
Mark, good luck with your sale.  It is well worth your asking price and then some. 

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General Discussion / Re: SOLD Sandcast For Sale In Pieces SOLD
« on: February 19, 2020, 06:54:40 pm »
It's kind of sad that a sandcast had to be parted out like that, especially a 3 number sandcast.  I believe the frame and engine went to the same buyer.

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Parts Wanted / Re: Exhaust and 3 Baffles Lotus Root
« on: February 19, 2020, 06:51:33 pm »
Hi Kp, can you post pictures of the baffles and the lotus root?   
thanks
aRnold

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Member's Bikes / Re: Midwest Sandcast
« on: February 08, 2020, 07:39:35 pm »
Nice find Nick!

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Review of VIN'S For Directory / Re: SINGLE DIGIT VINs
« on: February 08, 2020, 07:37:43 pm »
Thanks Kp for the great info.  I'll keep my eyes out for the single digits!  I wonder what happened to the the first four bikes.  Are they in the Honda headquarters?  What would be the value of a single digit and double digit sandcast?

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New Member Introductions / Re: New member from Germany
« on: December 26, 2019, 01:16:58 pm »
Welcome to the forum Werner! Are you actively looking for a sandcast?

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General Discussion / Bitter sweet find
« on: November 13, 2019, 01:45:55 am »
About a year and a half ago I saw this ad for a cb750 that was being parted out.  The picture on the ad was that of a ruby red CB750.  It had only one picture and not much information.  The seller was parting it out.  I messaged the seller to see if I can save this bike, however he did not respond.  I saved the ad and for about a year and a half I messaged him probably 20 times asking if it was still available.   The ad had been removed from the website but for some reason I could still view it because I had saved it.  Well long story short, the guy messages me back about 2 months ago and asked if I was interested in the whole bike.  I asked him what he wanted for the bike not knowing that it was a sandcast.   He said what do you have to trade.  I asked him what he was planning to do with the bike and he had told me he was going to remove the engine to place in a golf cart project that he was planning.  I offered him a trade - his CB750 project for a 1982 CB900F engine which he could use instead of the sandcast engine.  He said yes.  So we do the trade and I had the bike delivered to my house while I was on vacation.  When I finally got to see what I had traded for, I was so disappointed to see that the numbers on both the engine and frame had been altered.  The bike however must have been quite early as it had a left sided horn mount, thin lipped alternator cover, 19 liter tank and short petcock.  The bike also had the double cut fender and rear rolled rim.  I was trying to figure out what I should do with this bike.   After much contemplation, I decided to keep the bike and maybe build it out.  I could probably get it running and road worthy.

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General Discussion / Re: Fake part or a copy?
« on: November 13, 2019, 01:25:48 am »
The ones from Yamiya are nice reproductions but slightly more costly.  I'm not sure about these $39 ones.  It would be nice to have a comparison between the more expensive ones vs the more affordable set.

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New Member Introductions / Re: gretting from France!
« on: September 05, 2019, 09:37:00 pm »
Hi there Jean-Louis.  Welcome.  Very nice gold Sandcast.  it looks like it has an early cut-off switch without a pointer.  What's the history on your sandcast?
Arnold

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Restoration of Sandcast #97 / Re: Restoration of Sandcast #97
« on: June 21, 2019, 01:50:14 pm »
Mark, Congrats on Best in Show award.  Well deserved.  Great restoration thread.

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Links to Auctions and Classifieds / Re: Vic World's CR750 on eBay
« on: June 09, 2019, 12:12:09 am »
This is an amazing piece of engineering and was awesome to see and hear at the Quail with Sam.  It was probably the loudest bike there.  Also to get the 13:1 compression that Vic was able to get from an early Sandcast engine is a remarkable feat.  The amount of rare parts that are on this bike makes it nearly one of a kind.  Vic mentioned that the gears were hand made, the cylinder head valve cover was engineered with bolts that run through the cover and stabilize the rocker towers, and he also said the clearance of the vavles and pistons was so close and precise that the pistons would "self clean". I posted a video of Sam starting the CR750 on Youtube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgpudMsulzo

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Here are a few more pics of the Vic's CR750 and recently completed Sandcast.

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I just wanted to mention our very own Sam (Ujeni) won best in class and won best in show at the 2019 Quail Motorcycle Gathering. It was a great event and great weather for a motorcycle show on a golf course. Makes me want to get one sandcast ready for next year!

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I just was just at the show in Carmel.  It was amazing.  The featured bikes were the Honda Cb750 sandcasts.  I took some pictures of the sandcasts bikes as well as Vic World's all original CR750.

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Links to Auctions and Classifieds / Re: A Joke On eBay
« on: May 01, 2019, 10:03:10 pm »
I located this guy on facebook and messaged him calling him out for messing up an eBay item that I had.  He acted like he did not know what I was talking about then blocked me.  He has two ebay names and uses one to outbid his other ebay name.  He did this to get out of paying an auction that he won. 

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