$200,000 Honda CB750. Believe it!

[HenryDorsetCase]

If you have an interest in Sandcasts here's a link to the owner of the pre production bike that's for sale. Vic World made his millions by inventing the emergency glo stick. They sold in their tens of thousands to people going to rock concerts as well as for emergency use.

I'm currently restoring a 1969 diecast CB750. I dropped the bike in the Catlins last November so I guess I have no option but to do it now It'll be finished in the candy blue green colourway.

http://www.worldmotorcycles.com/Page...o-Article.html

Sorry to hear you dropped your bike. That was the red one I've seen?

Now at $130300.

[Katman]

Excellent article - thanks. I do worry about people when they start trying to replicate 'rougher' polish marks in the metal before chroming so it matches what was done in 1969 ..............

In a similar vein, my 1100 has some shocking birdshit welding on the frame. Many people have said I should tidy the welding up and repaint the frame, but from what I've learned, the early 80's was the beginning of robotic welding and that's just how they came out.

So the birdshit stays.

[AllanB]

In a similar vein, my 1100 has some shocking birdshit welding on the frame. Many people have said I should tidy the welding up and repaint the frame, but from what I've learned, the early 80's was the beginning of robotic welding and that's just how they came out.

So the birdshit stays.

Hahha brings back memories of my 80's bikes - heaps of birdshit splatter around the welds. Bugged me then, bugs me now.


There are people in the states who are restoring cars for concourse shows and they hang individual bolts from thin wire at just the right angle so the applied paint is just the right amount heavier on the correct side of the bolt! That's just sick .......

[Larksea]

wow that is some bike, you would kinda expect it to eventually be worth a whole lot more than that. Something that is genuinely a one of a kind historically significant bike.

[toycollector10]

Sorry to hear you dropped your bike. That was the red one I've seen?

Yes, but it was pretty rough after seven years of riding it in all types of weather.

[toycollector10]

Well, it didn't go to 200k but pretty close.

Winning bid:US $148,100

Approximately NZD $178,886

[ 102 bids ]

[roogazza]

Well, it didn't go to 200k but pretty close.

Winning bid:US $148,100

Approximately NZD $178,886

[ 102 bids ]

Just spotted this toycollector10, It seems like yesterday when I first layed eyes on one of these.
A tootle around the block on a mate's, mate's bike who came to show it off in Epping, Sydney.
The big dials glowing green and the biggest bike I'd ever been on.
Just incredible in those days.So trusting of the guy to let me ride it.

[pete376403]

WHen the first CB750s came out I made a special trip to Lawton & Boyle in Adelaide Rd (Welly) to look at it - no chance whatsoever of buying one, I was still at school and the price of $1999, on my paper round pay of $1.10 / week meant it might as well have been a million.