Hi Welcome Phill, And Thankyou for your very interesting post,
about 20 years ago i had a phone call from a gentleman from near Wagga Wagga country New South Wales telling me that he had a Sandcast in the 1014xxx range and i said to him, it couldn't be as they finished
at 10074xx, He got very angry with me about this and and finished the call.... So who knows there may be one in Australia too, i only spoke to him the once and dismissed it as a mistaken id of a Sandcast....
On another point i once owned a CB750 from 1969 it's vin and engine was CB750-1007489 CB750E-1007548 i bought it from the second owner who told me that it was sold New in Melbourne Victoria by a Honda dealler who could not get any bikes from Honda Australia and bought a number of new CB750's in France in their winter and had them air freighted to Australia and sold them at a very high price in our summer.
I spoke to the original owner of this Diecast bike and he told me it came from France New with some others and confirmed the story... It was still fitted with a KPH speedo, he was still embarrased about how much he paid for it and would not tell me the price he paid, i told him not to worry as we are paying lots more today than whatever he had paid. Best Regards Tom
I sold my first Sandcast and regretted it till I bought it back 6958/7149, its taken a few years to get a couple more 6946/7169, and 6970/E6956