I started a thread on another forum for this restoration, but that will be more of a documentation thread. Here, I feel that I can ask a lot more questions and get well informed answers.
It's finally time to pull this tired old girl out of the shed and give it some serious TLC. I bought this bike back in the spring of 1980 when I was a senior in high school. I rode it home...pleased as punch with a huge smile on my face. Well, two days later, I was involved in a fairly serious accident (not on the bike..I was a passenger in a school bus) that put me in the hospital for a couple of weeks and on crutches for three months. Undeterred, I strapped my crutches to the back of the bike and had some of the most enjoyable riding I've ever had. I rode this bike for nine years wracking up many thousands of miles.
So here it is in all it's glory.....well, more like neglect. And yes, I rode this bike with that ugly fairing
I am planning on doing a full teardown and restore the bike as close to stock as I can...within reason. Repro pipes are going to run $1200.00 minimum so thats going to take a huge chunk of the budget right there. I don't even want to think what the cost of good original pipes would run. I will be searching for good deals on good used parts that are nice, but not necessarily perfect. I want to ride this bike a lot.....so it will get the inevitable nick and scratch anyway.
I ran across this CB750 in Italy when I was over there for work this summer. This bike is why I brought my 750 to the front of my project que. This is the color I plan on painting.