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Help needed to identify my CB500-4
Bryanj:
As far as i know all the sancast 750's, which were just CB750 came from US as imports.
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--- Quote from: Oddjob on February 08, 2023, 04:19:50 AM ---plus we had requirements the other markets didn’t like headlamps dipping to the other side etc.
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Japan, India, Australia, South Africa are all drive on left like us, the right side of the road ;D likely that wouldn't have been a show stopper as native home market bikes would be on that supply too.
Although by all accounts it was USA driven impetus to make a four cylinder anyway, so in all likelihood that was primary target.
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Also counties like Cyprus and nearly all of Africa, Most of the Caribbean and so on drive on the same side as us. ;)
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--- Quote from: Bryanj on February 08, 2023, 09:15:40 AM ---As far as i know all the sancast 750's, which were just CB750 came from US as imports.
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And some sandcasts were French and Japanese ;)
And the Brighton bike was a sand cast so, UK also
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: Oddjob on February 08, 2023, 08:32:53 AM ---The other 3 I’d expect as they are British colonies but Japan? Never suspected they drove on the left as well, learn something new every day
Ash, sorry but that makes no sense. Now I don’t profess to know much about the 750, don’t like the bike and never will but I do read the posts on this site and the amount of yes it’s a genuine sand cast 750 I have heard said on here means that you’re statement must be wrong, if they didn’t appear till Jan 70 and were die cast where have all those sand cast 750s come from?
According to the web the 750 launched in Jan 69 in the US and April 69 in the UK Ash.
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The only sandcasts officially imported by Honda UK were the two Brighton Bikes . Alan Mountain and possibly other imported a sandcast and sold it in his shop but it was not sourced from Honda UK. The 1st official UK CB750 was 1010369 (mine is 1010382) both from the 1st Jan 70 imported batch. The sandcasts you refer too will have all been imported ... probably is the last 20 years.
Oddjob:
Fairly sure I’ve seen 750s which are G reg so pre August 69, which claim to be genuine UK bikes Ash, not that they interest me at all but the links go up on this site and I do tend to read all the posts etc that go up. AFAIK only one of the Brighton bikes still exist, the other was broken? Correct?
What strikes me as odd about this discussion is that if you’re right that only 2 750s were officially imported which were sandcast, which I believe is a misnomer as they were low pressure die cast but looked like a sandcast finish so the name stuck, yet when the same is done on the 500s where only 3 were imported no one seems to think that could have happened and keeps claiming it can’t be true.
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