honda also says they didn't make the GL1000 until 1976 yet I have a 1975 front end sitting in my garage. For all their engineering you would think they could add. Anyway I have always heard that 1975s were rare because they were a late introduction. That only bikes made before september of 1975 are true 1975s, bikes made in spetember or after are actually 1976s. To complicate things bikes in some states used to be registered by the first year of registration which means a leftover 1975 could have been titled/registered as a 1976. Someone out there has to have the vin number breakdowns.
