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AshimotoK0:
In 2014 he passed on an ultra-nice sandcast for his museum that I put him on to (seller in the USA was asking about 17k GBP). It was owned by the SOOC guru Steve Swan. Instead he bid and won this one below. I was talking to him at Bonhams at the sale of the UK diecast press bike YLY 70H last year. He told me that even though the owner (who was there and was the original purchaser from Honda UK in 1970) was expected around £35k for it DS told me there was no way that the bike would go past £20k. Guess what he was dead right. You have to give it to the guy, he certainly knows his onions buying and selling NOS parts and bikes...that's why he's where he is today.

https://www.mecum.com/lots/PA0714-194852/

BTW if he did sell you a set of pipes with that sandcast he's selling, then, even  at his full retail price....then you are getting a bit of a bargain as the HM300 No.No.s he sells are from Yamiya and looking of his price of £1,195 compared with £1,086 direct (plus import/shipping) from Yamiya,  then how much would it cost you to ship plus  import duty the Yamiya pipes? Sometimes the facts speak for themselves.
I wish someone on these forum would share an actual bona fide sales invoice for one of the K0 / Sandcast mega money 'sales' ...just to prove me wrong !

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MrDavo:
Is $13,000 the guide price of the Mecum bike or what it sold for? That’s less than £10k, a diecast in that condition would fetch more than that here, no wonder people import them. What’s with the seat - collapsed foam or shortarse version?

Having already been raped by HMRC and parclefarce for the full set of CB750 shells I bought from Yamiya last year, I have considered getting a set of those pipes from DS and stashing them in my attic for the future, in case the offer is not repeated when the current stock is sold.

AshimotoK0:
The seat will have collapsed as it was the 'crumbly with old age' red rubber-foam type. Apart from that is was a bog standard minter from a private museum collection.

I logged into Mecum and did that screenshot and yes it sold for that plus buyers premium. He then saw a Sandcast on Craigslist in the USA with VIN 750 and bought that and sold the Mecum bike 'too cheaply probably' ...his words ! Personally I think the Mecum bike was much more original than the one he has in his museum ...but of course VIN 750 is iconic ( shouldn't it be 736  ;)  ) and a much earlier build....The one in the museum has a points cover stamped SOHC  ...aaargh!

Sgt.Pinback:
Do they collapse that far?

Here is mine after 243.000km

AshimotoK0:
I think it depends on the climate ULi . I have heard of NOS seats collapsing.  Or maybe a rodent got in there .. I found a mouse nest in a 500K0 seat I got from the USA  :D

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