Honda CB750 Sandcast
General Category => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: jphprec on December 09, 2011, 05:15:08 pm
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Hello all, first i have to say i found your site very useful as to finding what i bought. My story goes, as a young boy ( age 8 ) my neighbor bought a new motorcycle and i walk by it almost every day in the nice weather in the early 1970's always stopping to stare at this big red motorcycle. Fast forward 40 years and i run into my neighbor at a block party and ask what he ever did with the old Honda, he states that he still has it but has not ridden it for over 25 years. I ask if he would ever think of selling it and to my surprise he said yes, so we take a short walk over to his garage and there it sits in the rear all covered up with junk. It looked a bit rough not the brand new machine i remember but all there. long story short i offer him $500.00 (he later tells me he would have took $300) next thing me and my friend are pushing it around the block and into my garage. now to find out more about what i just bought and did i pay too much, my friend said i was nuts. it turns out not to be a sand cast but an original bone stock 1970 CB750 with 17,000 miles, engine # 1015703 and the frame tag reads 1015444 12/69 some of the early parts include a double cut front fender a no # stamped exhaust and 4 dimple wrinkle tank. I own other old bikes but this is my first Honda so i am sure you will me hearing from me again....thanks Jim
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I don't think that's a bad buy. You've got a great story to go with it. I have an 11/69 diecast too. It's what got me into the sandcasts. A lot of the info here applies to both so you've come to the right place. Welcome aboard.
Mark
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Very cool & welcome !
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Jim, welcome to the group. Nice snag on an early k0. Marty K.
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Welcome!
good story and cheap price for a complete bike.
Please, post more pics.
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So i cleaned the bike up a bit and took a few more pictures, and now its off to a friends shop, hoping it won't need to much love to get running. i will worry about the cosmetics as i go along.. jim
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Welcome. Down in my neck of the woods $500 is a steal. That bike wouldn't have lasted 15 minutes on craigslist.
Great starting point.