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SOHC.co.uk Forums => CB750 => Topic started by: AshimotoK0 on March 28, 2016, 02:44:04 PM

Title: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: AshimotoK0 on March 28, 2016, 02:44:04 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJLW78PHHFw&feature=youtu.be

Oddjob is gonna mention the locking fuel latch :D
Title: Re: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: JamesH on March 28, 2016, 02:59:54 PM: Well, Have to say the sandcast is nice....I love the 450D....
Title: Re: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: AshimotoK0 on March 28, 2016, 03:02:21 PM: Quote from: Jamesh_sussex on March 28, 2016, 02:59:54 PM
Well, Have to say the sandcast is nice....I love the 450D....

There was one of those 450D's auctioned in the UK earlier this year ...never met reserve.

I have asked him what happened to the one he got from the Mecum auction
Title: Re: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: JamesH on March 28, 2016, 03:03:36 PM: Someone probably bought it and took the seat and toolkit and sold it on ha ha :-)...
Title: Re: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: AshimotoK0 on March 28, 2016, 03:38:29 PM: Quote from: Jamesh_sussex on March 28, 2016, 03:03:36 PM
Someone probably bought it and took the seat and toolkit and sold it on ha ha :-)...

Seat was the only bad bit ..the foam had collapsed !
Title: Re: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: philward on March 28, 2016, 08:13:56 PM: going off the subject - did you see that CB1100RB (early half faired model) - I had one of those that I bought for £800 with 81,000 miles on the clock - fully re-built it and only needed rings, big ends and mains where perfect! (plus normal camchain related stuff). Was a very quick bike even by todays standard. Sold it for £2,500 - wish I had it now! loved the ride and looks. Hindsight hey!
Title: Re: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: steff750 on March 28, 2016, 09:33:29 PM: ;) nice find ash
@ oddjob yes legal requirement by the yanks in the seventies ,they was afraid that the old catch would pop open and spill petrol everywhere in a crash,all nos tanks came with a cap lock needless to say i removed mine for the early latch,and i want more than 35p for the old lock BTW :)
DS did say it had been restored probably never got round to changing it back .Vic world supplied the sandcast for the Honda museum,he would know
Title: Re: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: Green1 on March 28, 2016, 09:37:16 PM: Was it a legal requirement my green K1 came with the early latch
Title: Re: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: steff750 on March 28, 2016, 10:34:56 PM: ;) not for k1 i think it came out with k2 about 1974
I'm sure did see a service bulletin on it ,and any nos tanks to USA was changed to lock,as you say yours came with latch so spose it was the owners choice to stick with old latch, but Honda had to supply cap lock on nos tanks to keep in USA guidelines ,i have had two nos tanks from DS with locking caps one a k0 the other k2
Title: Re: VIN 750 Sandcast DS museum ..wow
Post by: AshimotoK0 on March 29, 2016, 08:19:48 AM: Quote from: steff750 on March 28, 2016, 10:34:56 PM
;) not for k1 i think it came out with k2 about 1974
I'm sure did see a service bulletin on it ,and any nos tanks to USA was changed to lock,as you say yours came with latch so spose it was the owners choice to stick with old latch, but Honda had to supply cap lock on nos tanks to keep in USA guidelines ,i have had two nos tanks from DS with locking caps one a k0 the other k2

Someone on the USA site said you can still get a recall on the tank catch for replacement free ..