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Honda UK registered CB500K0's
Nurse Julie:
Daz, this may help or confuse even more 😊😊😊 From VIN 1034121, it shows the 500/4 K0 as being the General Export model, your VIN of 1030582 is obviously just prior to the General Export VIN numbers 🤔🤔🤔.
We do know dealers were bringing in loads of what we now know as 'grey import' K0's from Europe because Honda weren't supplying the K0 to UK but customers wanted them. They were imported and 1st registered in UK. Yours could well be one of those grey imports with the 103*** VIN. The very few proper UK 1st registered 500/4's don't have 103*** VIN numbers.
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daz:
Thanks for looking into it for me, makes more sense, cheers Darren
AshimotoK0:
I personally don't see what all of the hype is between UK and US 500K0's and 750 1st model diecasts as the differences are only very subtle (rear lamp, grabrail and RH switchgear). and after all .. they were all made in Japan ;D. Even the bars on the early UK750's are the same as the USA one. I form my opinion on this, as I have a genuine 1st batch UK 750 and a USA 500K0 built in 3/71 with squared off crankcases and I have monitored sales of these over the past ten years. I have always maintained that the prices people throw around are over inflated and have never seen a bill of sale of actual folding stuff changing hands for these prices. If there is a premium for UK bikes due to this hype (which I cannot really see justification for) then like-for-like examples will only fetch a 20% premium IMHO. Please don't quote Frank at Motorcyce Unlimited's prices to me. My mate from York bought a rare sprint bike from him that he had listed at £1M. When my mate went to see it he was quoted all sorts of silly figures but offered him £10k cash ..no deal was struck so my mate set off back up north ... only to get a call on the way back from Frank saying he would accept £10k.. so my mate hightailed it back and bought it.
At Bonhams (Stafford Show) a few years back, the hype said that the UK, diecast, Press Bike (from 2nd UK batch) would top £35k and it reached £19k at the auction.
Talking of UK 750's .. did anyone see the one FreddyTheFatFrog was selling a week or so back boldly claiming in the listing title it was a genuine 1st batch 750 registered in December 1969 .... it was actually a 2nd batch registered in May 1970 (so really it was manufactured in 12/69) ... it's sold now ... so some mug is in for a surprise :( .
Nurse Julie:
Ash, I can show you the bill of sale for Triggers UK 500/4 K0 that I sold and I counted the £9250 of Her Majesties finest pounds that it sold for and that was 6 years ago 😊😊😊
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: Nurse Julie on January 30, 2021, 11:13:56 PM ---Ash, I can show you the bill of sale for Triggers UK 500/4 K0 that I sold and I counted the £9250 of Her Majesties finest pounds that it sold for and that was 6 years ago 😊😊😊
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I don't doubt you Julie but you are talking about a bike restored by a top restorer to a very high standard, fitted with NOS genuine pipes...which will always fetch a premium ... a USA K0 (particularly a square crankcase model) restored by him, to the same standard, would doubtless have fetched close to that IMHO .. there certainly would not have been a 50% premium because it was a UK bike .. more like a 20% figure, as I suggested.
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