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hairygit:
I bought 2 full exhaust systems from D.S.S. in 1987, including all clamps, brackets gaskets etc, £148 each plus vat (15%). Put one set on my bike, sold the other on in the mid 90's for £450, thinking I'd done alright out of that. Wish I'd kept the second set now to sell today! The downpipes/collector on their own were £39+ vat at that point.
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dave400:
--- Quote from: hairygit on May 21, 2019, 08:20:03 PM ---I bought 2 full exhaust systems from D.S.S. in 1987, including all clamps, brackets gaskets etc, £148 each plus vat (15%). Put one set on my bike, sold the other on in the mid 90's for £450, thinking I'd done alright out of that. Wish I'd kept the second set now to sell today! The downpipes/collector on their own were £39+ vat at that point.
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I bought a complete system for my 400 from DSS for less than 400 quid about 15 years ago and 500 miles in 1980 something my Honda dealer wanted 1200 quid for a full system....I bought a Motad system back then but it never sounded the same.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: dave400 on May 21, 2019, 08:50:02 PM ---
--- Quote from: hairygit on May 21, 2019, 08:20:03 PM ---I bought 2 full exhaust systems from D.S.S. in 1987, including all clamps, brackets gaskets etc, £148 each plus vat (15%). Put one set on my bike, sold the other on in the mid 90's for £450, thinking I'd done alright out of that. Wish I'd kept the second set now to sell today! The downpipes/collector on their own were £39+ vat at that point.
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I bought a complete system for my 400 from DSS for less than 400 quid about 15 years ago and 500 miles in 1980 something my Honda dealer wanted 1200 quid for a full system....I bought a Motad system back then but it never sounded the same.
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I remember the price for a full 400/4 system in the mid eighties being what Hairy quoted and that's when I bought mine. What happened was that Honda, for some reason, totally slashed their prices on exhausts around that time ..so much so that I thought it was too good to be true (I read it in MCM that they had done this). It was a massive discount at the time, so that would explain the vast difference in price between what Dave was quoted earlier in the 80's. Still cost me more than I paid for the bike though ;D
K2-K6:
I know someone who worked for a company that operated landfill sites in that era. One of them near the central UK warehouse and they dumped huge quantity of parts via that route, also sent staff to ensure nothing left the site and was buried while they where there.
I'd guess that spares prices on some things gave them a serious overstock which just costs money to store. If you store and account for inventory long enough then the cost of selling it can't match what you've payed to store it, pure accounting view just looks at cost versus profit, and says cut the cost! :(
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: K2-K6 on May 22, 2019, 08:49:15 AM ---I know someone who worked for a company that operated landfill sites in that era. One of them near the central UK warehouse and they dumped huge quantity of parts via that route, also sent staff to ensure nothing left the site and was buried while they where there.
I'd guess that spares prices on some things gave them a serious overstock which just costs money to store. If you store and account for inventory long enough then the cost of selling it can't match what you've payed to store it, pure accounting view just looks at cost versus profit, and says cut the cost! :(
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I was told by a very reliable source that when the Honda Service Department in Wollaton Rd. Nottingham closed that loads of parts were dumped in a pit that was on site and buried under strict orders that they were not removed off site. Evidently there was a really early CB750 there which they were told was also to be destroyed but it disappeared one night ... this is where my pair of CB750 prototype carbs originated from, so I wonder what the mystery bike was ::) ::) Both the Gold and Green CB750 prototypes were on that site at some point. I gave those carbs to a good friend and CB750 guru and he identified that they were in fact modified CL77 carbs.
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