Hondaman - What are the serial numbers? I've often hoped to find someone with a K2 early that was close to mine. I have the 530th K2 to be imported to US
So how do you tell what number it was imported as? Would the vin tell?
I have 2/72 2022907 engine 2030799
Or was it on the original sales receipt?
The first reported K2 imported US was 2004000. (Mine is 2004530.) The other 4000 were sent to Japan and Europe as part of the first "build" of 8000 units, so the story went. I had 'connections' to the shop in Peoria, IL at the time (where I had worked and attained the famed nickname that still dogs me) and Peoria was, in those days, a premier Midwestern place for performance vehicles of all types, like Daytona Chargers, Superbirds, super-rod Novas and Chevelles, and of course every kind of hot Mustang you can name. Along with that 'profile' came the hot bikes of the era. My mentor on the 750 (Jim Chamberlain) had the #1 K0 sandcast sold there in 1969, serial #100...7nn, and I still remember the Honda rep coming there one day and Jim letting him take it for a ride on the same day I picked up my K2. The Rep's wide-eyed response when he came back from the ride was, "My god, I've never ridden a 750 that fast! What have you done with it?". Jim's K0 was box-stock but for the Vetter Phantom fairing that was on it.
Jim got me the K2 I still ride, from that same rep. I traded my crooked-framed K1 to get it. (The story behind that one is in the "Suspension" chapter in my book.) I have to say today that, aside from the trade I made from wife 1.0 to wife 2.0, it was the best swap of my life.
