YLY70H

[UK Pete]

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23600/lot/319/

How much? the recent sandcast on ebay did not attract many big bids so can this one
pete

[JamesH]

£27k

[AshimotoK0]

£27k

Huh and not even from the 1st batch of 20 imported in Jan 70 !

[JamesH]

:-) we'll see...!

[AshimotoK0]

"In January 1973 the CB750 passed to its second private owner, and following several subsequent changes of ownership was reacquired by the vendor in July 2000 from a private museum collection having been restored previously (date unknown)"

Obviously, Roger Etcell who's Bonhams 'Honda' Man (I think)  doesn't have access to the old Ashimoto Dropbox    ... or maybe expenses wouldn't run to a copy of the 1987 Classic Mechanics mag off eBay !! No mention it was owned by Penelope Keith's Husband either or was used as a swap for the 'Brighton Bike' at one time or that loads of parts were off a donor bike or that's its done loads of miles! Maybe they should be paying me to do their research!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/19sxpkf3e02mo06/AAC-IdT6o6KY1KwpJl4s8p-Ma?dl=0

[UK Pete]

It does not excite me any more than the 3 much earlier vin number 750,s i have, i think its pushing its rarity on the fact it featured on uk advertising,   ash your the man for the info perhaps bonhams need too commision you on hondas
pete

[AshimotoK0]

It does not excite me any more than the 3 much earlier vin number 750,s i have, i think its pushing its rarity on the fact it featured on uk advertising,   ash your the man for the info perhaps bonhams need too commision you on hondas
pete

Not in with the 'In crowd' Pete .. The woman on the door wouldn't even let me in the Bonhams auction the only time I ever tried to get a peek inside.. said I needed a 17.50 quid catalogue to get in or 'that will be seventeen pourds fifty sir'  in her posh voice 

[Sgt.Pinback]

£27k

For a diecast?

[JamesH]

It's the UK press bike Uli.

I'm not saying I think it's 'worth' that, but I suspect someone will bid large for it...just an opinion, and we'll see.

[Sgt.Pinback]

I know, posted that in January

http://www.sohc.co.uk/index.php/topic,9389.15.html

27.000 GBP = 33.400 € = nearly double the price I would expct for my German KO when I finished her.

[JamesH]

Yep, but your bike wasn't used in the press releases in Germany. People pay for uniqueness (sadly). Who knows what will happen..madness in my book...

[Sgt.Pinback]

Yes, mine wasn't agonized by any test driver in those days.
Anyway, I would pay a premium of 3-5 t€ to have some old pictures in some old bike magazines of her. But + 15 t€ ??

I grant it to the seller.

[AshimotoK0]

There is another one in the UK, again owned at one time by Honda UK but not a 'press bike' that's still only covered around 500 miles and totally original apart from being stripped to replace rubber cam rollers etc.. That bike or Dick Emery's bike is just as significant. YLY70H was also used for the model kit and a jigsaw puzzle FWIW. Wonder what happened to the one Lord Lichfield owned. I did a bit of research on this (took a bl**dly lot of finding I can tell you) and he had a bevvy of girls on monkey bikes and him on his CB750 travelling around London, during a Post Office strike, as he formed his own little 'Post Delivery splinter group'. Not a lot of people know that ...ooh you are awfull Ash ..get on with some bleedin' graft !

[UK Pete]

I doff my hat to you ash

[JamesH]

Ditto re. Ash. The oracle.