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Petrol tank chrome strip .
atlsec:
Hi Guys ,
This is all interesting stuff and I`m sure most of it is correct but on the cover of The Motor Cyclist April 1969 it shows a sandcast which they road tested and that has the black stripe strip on it .I cannot see that that magazine would get a prototype model for testing . Also someone said that Honda did not sell complete engines ,Why not .And due to the fact that a lot were destroyed in the early days of production I do not believe they were rebuilt .I believe they got new engines from Honda . I would not trust many people to rebuild an engine ,especially main dealers .
Cheers , Alan .
MrDavo:
--- Quote from: atlsec on March 30, 2016, 09:23:34 AM ---I cannot see that that magazine would get a prototype model for testing .
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That's exactly what happened, YLY70H. I have a copy of a Classic Mechanics roadtest on that bike as restored, downloaded from a link on here, and funnily enough there is no stripe! You can see why they would have 'corrected' that, but now we know it's actually wrong.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: atlsec on March 30, 2016, 09:23:34 AM ---Hi Guys ,
This is all interesting stuff and I`m sure most of it is correct but on the cover of The Motor Cyclist April 1969 it shows a sandcast which they road tested and that has the black stripe strip on it .I cannot see that that magazine would get a prototype model for testing . Also someone said that Honda did not sell complete engines ,Why not .And due to the fact that a lot were destroyed in the early days of production I do not believe they were rebuilt .I believe they got new engines from Honda . I would not trust many people to rebuild an engine ,especially main dealers .
Cheers , Alan .
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That article from MCM in '69 , which I did the scan on, WAS definitely the sandcast pre-prod Brighton bike later to become CGU 7H It was photoed being prepped for sale. Lord Denbigh was well in with Honda UK and managed to buy the show bike off them (he previously had a 450 black bomber along with Lord Litchfield). If you do a search on here I have probably done posts on this before ...don't want to bore everyone . Plus I am becoming a bit of a Cb500/4 fan now. There are far too many 750k0's around now ..we probably have more over here than the yanks. It was a nice esoteric bike to restore when I bought it in 2008 and being one of the 1st 20 batch to the UK I was a bit chuffed when I bagged it over dealers, horse traders etc. Losing it's shine a bit now though I fear. They are money pits to restore and everyone is an 'expert' :( . To me there is only one true 'expert' in the UK and he doesn't go on forums hardly ever (& no it's not John Wyatt). He's probably forgotten more than I know on the 750.
In the Dropbox scan of the '69 MCM I also included an advert with the 'Marsha Hunt' hairdo model in B&W .. that was the Brighton Bike too.
Sorry don't have any K1 trim
Sgt.Pinback:
That green one is just fantastic, what a great colour!
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: Sgt.Pinback on March 30, 2016, 10:28:15 AM ---That green one is just fantastic, what a great colour!
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Lost in France and no Bonnie Tyler doesn't own it ;D
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