Topic: MY CB750 SANDCAST FIND

[dhall57]

Thanks for posting again. If only paid $1000 or so for it you stole it son. What's the engine case stamp # Won't be the same has the frame neck vin but should be fairly close. This is a 6/70 750KO(not a SC) that's all there with only 18K on the clock. Bikes like this are far and few between. Not sure but I think this build date should have the wrinkled also. Just open up gas cap and first thing you see will either been smooth or wrinkled looking metal. What makes the bike a 750 sandcast Barnfinder is not the wrinkled tank or the ducktail seat or that it looks idenical to a SC like you said, but it's the engine casing and the process that was used to make that type of case. I think it was just the first 7400 or so bikes produced had SC engines before switching to the diecast case. So by the time your June of 1970 bike was being put together in Japan the CB750's with SC engines had been a thing of the past for a while , but still a jewel of a find. Congrats again and glad to have you on board here.

[ekpent]

There is a long list of the differences between early Sandcast and later K0 documented here on this site. Lots of very good info.  http://cb750sandcastonly.com/
   As you begin to tear down your bike for cleaning and tuning etc. I cannot stress enough to be very careful removing your carb rack. Use a heat gun on the rubbers and take it very easy. The carb mount plate can be brittle and was a one year only deal and snapping it in the middle would make for a bad day. Whats left of the hard to find airbox will be brittle also by now.
  Check that upper triple tree and make sure both sides have a 'D' washer in the gap where the bolt goes through. Looks like you have a replacement bolt because of the fairing bracket and guys lose them or I have seen them mounted on the outside before where they do no good. Breaking that makes for a bad day also 
   Be proud of your find and keep us up to speed, were here to help, not taunt.

[Johnie]

Yah, thanks for filling us in on the details barn finder. Very nice KO for a very good price. Treat it well and it will surprise you when you start it up...these are awesome. You can't find cars this old sitting that will start with minimal work. Good luck with it and keep us posted....

[dhall57]

Hi guys, Heres my story of my latest find.I live in the city and my neighbor up the street had this bike sitting in front of his driveway, when I saw it my heart sunk when i saw the paint scheme, the ducktail seat and the black speedometer tach gauges. I said that looks like a cb750 sandcast! I had to know if it was forsale even if I were to get a no answer. I buzzed his door bell and he came right out of his machine shop man cave in back. He was the original owner, bought it right off the showroom floor and told himself he would never sell it but his wife told him he was too old to ride anymore being around 70 years so frustrated he told me he rather see it go to a good home. He said a local tweeker had come by showing interest a month earlier and tried to start it with jumper cables using a car and told him if he would hear it run he would buy it, the old man complied long story short the tweeker got it to fire up and offered $200 the owner said get lost. He broke the throttle cables and original airbox try to squirt either in the carbs and give gas . a shame so I need to locate a 4-1 throttle set-up and a lower half air box that is painted to match the original. I took off the fairings that the owner had the dealer add-on since new, and the patina with dust resembles a barnfind I am new here so I wanted to share my treasure find with you guys. I think it would be neat to leave it the way it is with the dust on the bike and ride it to start a new bike craze the "barnfind patina look" or should I restore the bike please comment let me know what you think. First pic is how I found it and the last is its current condition state. I was surprised not really any rust at all just light surface.The bike is safe and sound in my garage now away from any tweekers. heres a video of me talking to the owner

Looks like he hasn't posted anything since Oct 15. I sent him a PM on Nov 6 but no reply. Has anybody heard from barnfinder and his 750KO that he found sitting in someones driveway.

[Johnie]

Wonder if he flipped it?

[dhall57]

I hope he didn't flip it because of the let down when he realized it wasn't a SC like he thought. Hope he held on to it Johnie and get's it back on the road.

[Johnie]

Yup...ship it over I am ready.

[Tews19]

Prolly flipped it. Used his video as a selling point as One Owner bike.

[754]

Seagull poster....