1978 500/4 engine parts prices

[AshimotoK0]

Copied this off Facebook. 8% VAT then

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[Nurse Julie]

Blimey 🧐🧐🧐🧐

[Johnny4428]

If only!😳. Interesting Ash.

[Bryanj]

I will have 10 of everything at that price!

[Oddjob]

What’s interesting to me is the way some parts have become a lot more expensive than other parts.

The camchain tensioner 14500-323-00 cost £5.83, that’s the complete tensioner btw, now it costs around £174, yet the camchain itself is more expensive at £7.06 yet that is around £65 and around £30 for the same chain not in a Honda bag.

Most likely the prices now reflect how scarce certain parts are now.

[SteveD CB500K0]

That’s my 1978 engine rebuild. 

Where did you get that Ash? I’m not on Facebook.

I’ve probably posted it on here at some time in the past 16 years.

I think there were two pages though.


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[SteveD CB500K0]

Plus,

When I was at Uni, £46 was five weeks money.


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[AshimotoK0]

That’s my 1978 engine rebuild. 

Where did you get that Ash? I’m not on Facebook.

I’ve probably posted it on here at some time in the past 16 years.

I think there were two pages though.


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Here is the culprit Steve. 

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[AshimotoK0]

Equates to £265 in today's money.

I remember buying new CB400F handlebars from Peters of Hull in 1978 and they were £12.(£69 in todays money)

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Thats a six fold increase in cost - by contrast my income in 1987 compared to my income today as a pensioner has increased twelve fold so in reality its cheaper for me today than it was in 1987.

[Laverda Dave]

That’s my 1978 engine rebuild. 

Where did you get that Ash? I’m not on Facebook.

I’ve probably posted it on here at some time in the past 16 years.

I think there were two pages though.


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You obviously thrashed that bike Steve   
I was on £24/week as a 1st year apprentice coach trimmer back then, £42 was an arm and a leg!

[SteveD CB500K0]

I was a student Dave.

£10 a week was what we had.


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[SteveD CB500K0]

Ash.

He’s pinched that from my Blog.

Without attribution…


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[Oddjob]

What's odd is that whoever was buying these parts clearly had a 500-4, not a 550-4. But he also bought 4 dust covers for the top of the fork sliders, the 500 didn't have them fitted, the 550 did and even then only had 2 of them, yet they bought 4.

[AshimotoK0]

What's odd is that whoever was buying these parts clearly had a 500-4, not a 550-4. But he also bought 4 dust covers for the top of the fork sliders, the 500 didn't have them fitted, the 550 did and even then only had 2 of them, yet they bought 4.

It was actually  our own SteveD's invoice Ken .... posted by somebody else on Facebook.