Okay here is the story on the bike. About 5 years ago I bought my first k0 of craigslist from a collector in New Jersey. He was a great guy and had great stories he had been collecting cb750's and only cb750's for probably close to 40 years. He like most of you who can remember these bikes new would go to his local Honda shop almost every day to drool over and dream about owning one someday. Which probably led to his obsessive collecting. He once told me back in the late 70's he called a Honda shop in Australia purchased a cb750f flew there road all over Australia camping at night, sold the bike and flew home all in a few weeks one winter. He would call me to talk motorcycles from time to time and would also call me if he wanted to sell a bike from his collection. I think I purchased 3 bikes from him over the years. He had three Sandcast in his collection which he coveted and knew their value. The red one he listed on craigslist over a year ago and I believe he sold it for $18,000 it was close to being al original. The blue one he had in his living room and was slowing restoring it but it had a cracked case in front of the sprocket from the chain. This one he had in a garage he was renting close to his apartment along with the rest of his collection. His health started to go and he was in and out of the hospital. He last called me a few months ago wanting to sell me his blue sandcast from his living room, I declined because I couldn't afford his asking price. A few months later I see an add on craigslist for cb750 gas tanks that looked like tanks from his collection. I called the number and talked to the guy selling them he said my friend had passed and his brothers didn't want the burden of getting rid of any of his motorcycle parts or bikes and told the property owner he could have everything (I guess they looked at the stuff like junk)so he decided to sell off his parts to clean out the apartment. Oh yeah my friend was a bit of a parts hoarder his apartment was full of old Honda parts. Unfortunately the property owner decided to keep the blue sandcast for himself but I was lucky enough to end up with some nice parts from the him. Then with the help of two other forum members we tracked down the owner of the garage he was renting to house his motorcycles. Finally 5 years after seeing the cafe sandcast and dreaming of owning the bike I was getting close to making it reality. And yesterday it happened he told me what he needed to get for the bike and I paid him. I believe my friend would be happy that I ended up with one of his beloved sandcast motorcycles and that its going to a good home. Strange how things have ways of working out. He was a great friend and I will miss listening to his motorcycle stories. The great thing was he purchased the majority of his cb750's for a few hundred dollars or less, he was very proud of that fact.
