Topic: Faux proto

[Don R]

  At the risk of irritating someone we look up to again,  I was bench racing (beers in the shop) with my brother, and I brought up the idea of making an early K0 into a faux prototype style bike. Some of our ideas were getting the Yamiya gold tank set with white stripes, gold side cover emblems, white fork reflectors, sandcast shocks, a set of Mikuni carbs to loosely fake the look of early Keihen carbs adapted to a 2 bolt airbox and a single cable right control, and an early round top taillight CA77 or 350? It might be the perfect place for the Vietnamese handmade double cut fender set. 
 Maybe even a low type Yamiya seat? Lotus Root pipes if there were any, the Busso pipes I have, might even fit the theme if I didn't use the chrome heat shields. 
 Any other ideas? 

[seanbarney41]

Basically, your imagination is the only limitation...as there is no real documentation to say your wrong.

[Don R]

 The Brighton bike was my inspiration but you're correct.
  I think it would be fun to see who noticed any differences. When my Sandcast was at the estate sale when I got it, the old timer Honda guys were picking apart the differences. The tank trim didn't have a stripe, that's an auto parts store trim piece, there wasn't a build date on the neck tag, wrong tag, they even read the frame numbers out loud. Why would the manual print date be 4/69? The caliper is stripped down to silver! Somebody even trimmed the front fender.
 I was secretly wishing laryngitis on the talker of the group. Only one of them bid past a thousand and it was him and me until I won it. The loud guy said I really got screwed, cause there ain't no 750 worth more than $500. 

[69cb750]

The Brighton bike was my inspiration but you're correct.

You could stamp one of your replacement frames 2114 and stamp your set of replacement sandcast cases 2117.
Make sure you use the prototype stamps as they differ from production stamps.
Some of the parts will be tricky to make like the rear fender.
I am currently working on a 1939 protype and it is slow going as Honda does not have parts, almost no one has any parts, making progress.
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
I know knowingly this is possible and can be unburdened by what has been.