Topic: Vic World never disappoints - Highest ever CB750 sale ?

[Doggie]

Hold onto that mag., might be worth something to the owner of that bike.
                                        Doug

[Glenn Stauffer]

Good idea to capture the pictures.

Anyone remember this: http://www.sohc4.net/cb750-prototype/

It was probably 15 years ago when someone approached me with information about a reputed CB750 prototype.  The page on the site is from a Japanese magazine article.  I think I have scans of some color photos somewhere.  About 5 years ago, someone wrote to me to tell me that this prototype featured on the website was a fake.

[Glenn Stauffer]

Then there's this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-1969-1970-CB750-K0-PROTOTYPE-SANDCAST-RARE-CARTOON-COMIC-BOOK-MANUAL-/141188804706?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item20df823062&vxp=mtr

[Damfino]

Then there's this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-1969-1970-CB750-K0-PROTOTYPE-SANDCAST-RARE-CARTOON-COMIC-BOOK-MANUAL-/141188804706?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item20df823062&vxp=mtr

Did you make him an offer, Glenn?? 

[Glenn Stauffer]

I am looking to see if there is a way to get a scanned copy some other way.  I'd pay something for that book, but nowhere close to the asking price.  I'll watch that auction and probably make an offer before the end if there is no bidding.

[Powderman]

Wants $1k for a comic book and then has the balls to ask $10 shipping on it, what a douche.

[Damfino]

http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/black-side-down/honda-cb750-sells-for-148100.aspx

[spiritof67]

While I applaud Vic World's capitalist view of sandcast Honda 750's (for the few that give a d+mn about that arcane subject) I would like to note that he is also one of the reasons so many of us have to scrounge and chivvy just to find stock parts...since he bought store loads of them, hoards them, and won't share them. At least in my experience. Just sayin'.

[754]

Well  if you had strong interest in a certain bike and sacrificed ten or more years of your life and considerable investment.. You could have the same thing... But you have to think of it first..

[Stev-o]

http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/black-side-down/honda-cb750-sells-for-148100.aspx

Good article, thx Schmitty.  Will we ever find out who bought it?

[vames]

While I applaud Vic World's capitalist view of sandcast Honda 750's (for the few that give a d+mn about that arcane subject) I would like to note that he is also one of the reasons so many of us have to scrounge and chivvy just to find stock parts...since he bought store loads of them, hoards them, and won't share them. At least in my experience. Just sayin'.

I doubt Vic bought up parts or bikes to pull them off the market in an attempt to drive up prices. He's restoring and selling something that is old, becoming rare, and in demand. He needs bikes and parts to do that. Clearly he's trying to make a living doing it, and sales like this tend to increase interest in these functioning antiques. But prices rise because of what buyers are willing to pay.

[JeffSTL]

He's wealthy and from what I've read this is a hobby for him not a business. His business is World Plastics,inc.  Made a fortune from making glow sticks. Wether or not it was intentional, his hoarding has most definitely made parts hard to find and expensive. His stated master plan was to buy up every possible bike (regardless of condition), frame, part, new or old that he could get his hands on. He has parts wharehoused.

[Rookster]

I don't see how Vic World drove up prices of CB750 parts or bikes.  Unless you are trying to find nos sand cast parts. 

World didn't invent the sand cast market nor was he first to predict that sand casts would be valuable.  In the early 90s CB750s were just starting to be viewed as important but not the everyday K0-K6 bikes, just the sand casts.  Cycle World  did the route 66 article featuring 2 sandcasts.  They also ran a 25th anniversary story about the CB750.  These articles and largely Mitch Boehm & David Edwards reverence for the CB750 started what would become today's craze for these bikes.  I would add Glen Stauffer and Mark McGrew as important people in the repopularization of these bikes as well.  There was a time when CB750s were just old fashioned cheap bikes.  I remember reading an add for a free CB750 in the pennysaver in the early 90s.  It had little to no value and the owner just wanted it out of his garage.

Scott

[Retro Rocket]

I don't see how Vic World drove up prices of CB750 parts or bikes.  Unless you are trying to find nos sand cast parts. 

World didn't invent the sand cast market nor was he first to predict that sand casts would be valuable.  In the early 90s CB750s were just starting to be viewed as important but not the everyday K0-K6 bikes, just the sand casts.  Cycle World  did the route 66 article featuring 2 sandcasts.  They also ran a 25th anniversary story about the CB750.  These articles and largely Mitch Boehm & David Edwards reverence for the CB750 started what would become today's craze for these bikes.  I would add Glen Staufer and Mark McGrew as important people in the repopularization of these bikes as well.  There was a time when CB750s were just old fashioned cheap bikes.  I remember reading an add for a free CB750 in the pennysaver in the early 90s.  It had little to no value and the owner just wanted it out of his garage.

Scott

Scott, I worked for a bike shop in Sydney Australia in the late 1980's that was already buying sandcasts and other early 750/4 Honda's and Z900 Kawasaki's, restoring them, crating them up and sending them back to Japan, its been going on for a while now......

[Don R]

 The sandcast frenzy has made it difficult/expensive to find diecast K0 parts for sure. Just look at Ebay. Good thing my sandcast doesn't need much. lol.

[Rookster]

Hi Retro,

I should have specified in the US.  Japan has never seemed to lose its passion for the CB750.  In the US CB750s were definitely not considered classic, cool, or even valuable.  The CB went through a dark period in the 80s.  I traded some baseball/football cards for a running K6 in 1991.  They were probably worth $100.  I used to be ashamed of it when I would go to the Honda dealer to buy parts.  It looked so small and weak next to the Nighthawks and CBRs on the showroom floor.  Times certainly have changed.  I see the Ducati 916 as kind of in the dark period right now.  They sure aren't as insignificant as the CB750 was in the 80s in the US but they are undervalued right now.  The 916 will be the classic bike of the 90s in my opinion.

Scott

[Retro Rocket]

Hi Retro,

I should have specified in the US.  Japan has never seemed to lose its passion for the CB750.  In the US CB750s were definitely not considered classic, cool, or even valuable.  The CB went through a dark period in the 80s.  I traded some baseball/football cards for a running K6 in 1991.  They were probably worth $100.  I used to be ashamed of it when I would go to the Honda dealer to buy parts.  It looked so small and weak next to the Nighthawks and CBRs on the showroom floor.  Times certainly have changed.  I see the Ducati 916 as kind of in the dark period right now.  They sure aren't as insignificant as the CB750 was in the 80s in the US but they are undervalued right now.  The 916 will be the classic bike of the 90s in my opinion.

Scott

Yes. I agree, I was actually agreeing with your first statement that as well "I don't see how Vic World drove up prices of CB750 parts or bikes."  My boss in that Job was actually Japanese  and a very smart business man and saw it happening before most others did. He didn't get the money they get these days but because we had good availability of NOS parts, restoration was relatively easy...