Author Topic: 1970 KO find.... (Read 4954 times)

guitarkev66 · « **on:** April 29, 2012, 05:48:34 PM »

I met an old cb750 collector who has been at it for over 40 years. I struck a deal with him on a real nice all original 1970 ko. Its all original runs and rides great, 19,000 miles, beautiful seat, an almost perfect set of original 300's . just needs a little polishing. Wow is it fast, will run circles around my K1.....

hoodellyhoo · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2012, 06:00:40 PM »

great score!!!!!

dhall57 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2012, 06:12:47 PM »

Way to go guitar

What a sweet KO. Congrads. Ok need more pics and some history on the bike

Johnie · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2012, 06:18:37 PM »

Un-frigging believable!!! What a great looking bike. How in the world did you ever get him to part with it??? I know it would be hard for me with any of mine at the moment.

Greggo · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2012, 06:33:22 PM »

Beautiful bike! I'm quite fond of the gold color...have the same tank for my K6.

Mind divulging the price?

guitarkev66 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2012, 06:47:34 PM »

Ok , this guy has 20 750's 3 of which are sandcast 750's. He knows what they are worth and has a ton of nos parts as well. I paid more for this bike than all my other bikes, but how often do you come across a KO in this shape I paid $4000.00 which was allot for me but I feel the bike is worth double of that. Here are some pics of this guys collection

andy750 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 29, 2012, 07:26:38 PM »

Wow that is a great deal on a K0!! And the rest of the collection looks amazing as well. If he is looking to sell any more let me know and Ill be down!!!

Enjoy that beautiful gold colour!
Andy

jneuf · « **Reply #7 on:** April 29, 2012, 07:27:20 PM »

If that bike is as nice as it looks, you stole it at $4K!

jerry h · « **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2012, 07:37:21 PM »

Beautiful bike! Can't wait to see more pics---- Looks like it was well cared for to survive all of these years in such nice shape. What a deal!!

Prospect · « **Reply #9 on:** April 29, 2012, 07:41:42 PM »

Incredibly good deal. Well done. I'm jelous.

Greggo · « **Reply #10 on:** April 29, 2012, 07:48:41 PM »

You got a great deal. It's great to see a personal collection like that, isn't it?

Tews19 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 29, 2012, 08:09:08 PM »

WHAT A SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You paid 4k for the first K0 or did you get the blue green sandcast for 4k?

Greggo · « **Reply #12 on:** April 29, 2012, 08:36:24 PM »

Quote from: Tews19 on April 29, 2012, 08:09:08 PM

WHAT A SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You paid 4k for the first K0 or did you get the blue green sandcast for 4k?

Pretty sure it's just the gold K0 in the first post, right?

754 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 29, 2012, 09:36:06 PM »

..NICELY Played ...!! bet theserial number is over 19****

Johnie · « **Reply #14 on:** April 30, 2012, 12:40:17 AM »

Always nice when a fellow member shares the price so we can keep track of what people are asking these days. Very nice bike for the money. Tell us more about this collector. You do not have to reveal name, etc. Just interested in how he started collecting and stuff. Was he a past dealer?

Terry in Australia · « **Reply #15 on:** April 30, 2012, 02:09:30 AM »

That's an incredible deal mate, I sold my 1/70 build K0 for $7500.00 in 2010 and it was a POS compared to yours! Cheers, Terry.

guitarkev66 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 30, 2012, 02:11:23 AM »

He said he was bit with the bug while he was in college, that was when he heard his first cb750 start up in the parking lot of his school in 1970. A year later he bought a red K1 brand new, which was stolen from his garage within a few weeks. He went back to the Honda dealer with his insurance money but all they had was a used 69 sandcast( bummer I know), he said on the way home he knew something was different when he felt the bike at full throttle, he said that bike was an animal. So he just started buying them up when he saw a deal. He must have 10 sets of 300 pipes hanging, and I even saw two sets of no number pipes hanging the kicker is all of the bike have their 300's so these are extras. I tried to buy a set he wouldn't sell any of his parts, you could tell he was very attached to everything he had. He almost gave me my money back three times and had to stare at it for a few minutes before I left. That was the first time I had seen a sandcast in person, it was a very interesting collection I wish I had taken more pictures. He had one more garage he didn't show me that had his 6000 mile red sandcast, and valley green K1 in but that was a few blocks away. Yeah 4000 for the gold K0 not the sandcast. He won't part with the sandcast bikes I tried........I will go back and let everyone no if he decides to sell anything else.....

dhall57 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 30, 2012, 03:15:55 AM »

What a great story. How did you find this guy and his bikes Guitar? Reminds me of the TV show American Pickers and they find people with all kind of stuff. You must be doing something right in your life to fall into this

This is why this forum is so great and I enjoy it so much. The comradery and the interaction of all the members here. Sure I wish I was the lucky son of a gun that had found this nice KO and brought it home, but honestly I'm just has happy and excited for Guitar and his KO find just if it had been me

I know how you feel man, I ran across my KO about a year ago sitting in a man's garage. Great feeling isn't it

I know it's early yet and the bike looks in very good shape, but it is 42 years old so it will need some stuff to make it safe and a road worthy machine. What's your plans for it? Are you going to cafe it

Ha,Ha. just kidding. Anybody that would even think about doing something like that to a bike like this deserves a punch square in the month and a swift kick in the A$$.

Hush · « **Reply #18 on:** April 30, 2012, 03:42:06 AM »

Amazing! That 4k bike you just bought would go for 3 maybe 4 times that here in NZ.

fishslayeryo · « **Reply #19 on:** April 30, 2012, 06:40:30 AM »

Very cool story and congrats on a sweet k0! Got a sweet deal to boot!

markb · « **Reply #20 on:** April 30, 2012, 06:51:36 AM »

I hate to sound like a broken record but yes, nice find! As others have stated, I love that gold too. Any of those sandcasts for sale?

754 · « **Reply #21 on:** April 30, 2012, 08:31:02 AM »

That bike is depreciation-proof..

man that is nice..

mono · « **Reply #22 on:** April 30, 2012, 08:36:43 AM »

WOW. congrats! very nice bike.

greenjeans · « **Reply #23 on:** April 30, 2012, 09:35:26 AM »

Beautiful.

so......is he selling anything else ? I have some money burning a hole in my pocket.

dhall57 · « **Reply #24 on:** April 30, 2012, 10:33:02 AM »

Quote from: greenjeans on April 30, 2012, 09:35:26 AM

Beautiful.

so......is he selling anything else ? I have some money burning a hole in my pocket.

So I guess the sell of your sandcast on ebay went through without any snags or problems. I know you were concerned for a while about the best way to collect the cash from the sell. I hope everything went good. I still don't know how you parted with it.

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