Honda CB750 Sandcast
General Category => Member's Bikes => Topic started by: kp on March 05, 2010, 04:31:41 pm
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Here is a photo taken on October 31st, 1969 as I was about to roll my brand new CB750 out the door of the small Honda dealership I bought it from. C.W. Lauchle Honda, Montoursville, PA
Ain't she a beaut? :o
(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc190/kerrycbx/IMG_0675.jpg)
Still has the temporary tag on it.
;D
(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc190/kerrycbx/IMG_0674.jpg)
When I first saw the magazine ads for a CB750, I was in Vietnam. It looked green/blue and that is the color I wanted to buy. But when I got home the dealer only had a red one in stock. It was the first CB750 that he sold and I would have had to wait for another one to be ordered in. Since I was on leave for 30 days and wanted to ride right away, I took the red one. It was seven months later when the covered bike sat outside with a full tank of gas. Some gas came out the tank cap vent while the sun beat on the gray plastic cover and this must have caused a chemical reaction that lifted the candy red paint near the filler cap.
I stripped the parts off and applied a candy blue color that was more to my liking. 8)
(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc190/kerrycbx/IMG_0677.jpg)
Here is a group I rode with one weekend around the Ft. Knox, Kentucky area in 1970. I followed them for a while but all they did was go 100 mph plus on little 2 lane roads from bar to bar. I didn't drink and I figured if I hung with them I would either get a speeding ticket or killed. So I left them after about the third bar.
Never could understand mixing gasoline and alcohol, never mind ethanol. :)
(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc190/kerrycbx/IMG_0676.jpg)
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Hey Ron, Those good ol boys don't look to be piss heads to me ??? ???
Now this lot are piss heads kp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZmDWltBziM&NR=1
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Well, that photo was taken on a Sunday morning, before the drinking started. I don't know what they looked like at the end. BTW, those are all military haircuts. We service pukes really stuck out in a Woodstock era crowd.