Honda CB750 Sandcast
The Restoration Shop => Paint - Badges and Component Refinishing => Topic started by: DW69K0 on April 14, 2016, 11:27:56 am
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OK, everyone will laugh at the simplicity of this question, ;D but could Honda have decided the color of the Sancast by a simple even or odd frame or engine number, or some combination there in?
I have an abundance of candy blue green bikes and only one candy ruby red Sandcast, when I compare my frame vin number all the frames with odd numbers are candy blue green and the even number one is candy ruby red.
I know this theory will not hold for long, so did anyone ever figure out how the factory decided the paint color, I know it was not random (guessing), so what are the theories on how body set colors were decided?
Best,
DW
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I don't know for sure my that my bikes are true to there colors but bike 803 is red bike 2950 is blue
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1803 is an original blue bike
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fwiw........ 4363 had red h.l. ears and h.l. bucket. ain't got pics
1865 underside of tank, inside of side covers and h.l ears, b-g. didn't bother to take pics
2157 definitely had b-g original parts on it, tank underside, h.l. ears. pics enclosed
232 had all gold ko parts on it, so......... ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? pics enclosed
personally, i believe there might maybe perhaps possibly have been more b-g bikes than red. back in the day, i remember seeing more b-g than red bikes.
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There are no silly theory, because everything is possible ...
Personally, for 1969 and the beginning of 1970 .. I have never seen a blue Sandcast Paris and surrounding... Only red motorcycles... and yet, I was riding a lot in 69 and 70...
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The b-g color had a short life. Only about 10 months.
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I think theory of odd and even numbers, while original sandcast 889 and 1095 were red and 446 was b-g.
I agree with Steve, I think also there were more b-g bikes.
Question is, how these bikes (colours) were produced on assambly line.