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Is this a repost or just WOW!
« on: January 20, 2010, 06:02:37 PM »
Here ya go as far as originality is concerned.
Sure the rubber would be crusty - but wow!

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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2010, 06:17:36 PM »
Huh, I wonder what the reserve they expect to meet is.
It is a '72 afterall... 0.8 miles or not.

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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2010, 06:22:17 PM »
total repost

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=64379.0

that's cool though that multiple people have found this on their own!  guess someones looking for a good deal on another bike???   :D
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Re: Is this a repost or just WOW!
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2010, 06:33:42 PM »
I keep hearing the stories of 2 1979 CBXs still in crates in my neighborhood, but have never located them. ;D However the stories persist from different sources over the last 20 years or so. So to see an actual time capsule like this one renews my faith in trying to locate them. Well just barely renews, but nevertheless....

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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2010, 07:26:46 PM »


   I find it totally AWESOME! 8)


   I once saw in a bike magazine that someone had a NEW 5? (don't remember exact year, 55-57 I think) BSA 500cc Gold Star still in the crate and it sold for $10,000 (it's been quite a few years since I saw that too (70's or 80's).

     
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2010, 09:07:49 PM »
very nice bike.

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Re: Is this a repost or just WOW!
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2010, 03:59:30 AM »

.... BSA 500cc Gold Star still in the crate and it sold for $10,000.....
   

Bill, the storys circulating about those CBXs are that the owner may....may sell one. The last price I had heard was for $15,000. But the price figure was about 10 years ago. I haven't heard the story lately with a price attached since. Again though, no address, no phone - just storys. But either the Urban Legend Grapevine is very well oiled and consistent in the tales, or there is a grain of truth in there somewhere.

A fellow told me 25 years ago about a 1969 Hemi Super Bee that was mothballed in a small town about an hour from me. Sat in a garage with an inch of dust on it - the typical old story. For years on lot of weekends over the years I would drive down and search that place trying to locate that car. About 10 or 12 years ago it was hauled out of its 25 plus year hibernation. Someone had indeed found it. And it was real. Wish there was some sort of truth analyzer for these old storys. Save a fellow a lot of time. ;D

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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2010, 04:13:23 AM »

.... BSA 500cc Gold Star still in the crate and it sold for $10,000.....
  

Bill, the storys circulating about those CBXs are that the owner may....may sell one. The last price I had heard was for $15,000. But the price figure was about 10 years ago. I haven't heard the story lately with a price attached since. Again though, no address, no phone - just storys. But either the Urban Legend Grapevine is very well oiled and consistent in the tales, or there is a grain of truth in there somewhere.

A fellow told me 25 years ago about a 1969 Hemi Super Bee that was mothballed in a small town about an hour from me. Sat in a garage with an inch of dust on it - the typical old story. For years on lot of weekends over the years I would drive down and search that place trying to locate that car. About 10 or 12 years ago it was hauled out of its 25 plus year hibernation. Someone had indeed found it. And it was real. Wish there was some sort of truth analyzer for these old storys. Save a fellow a lot of time. ;D

    Yeah, there really is no telling just how many situations like THAT that really exist. I've heard a few of those stories over the years myself, no telling how many situations like that, really exist. A little different deal, but I used to know where there was a 40' Ford coupe that was partially customized (body chopped and channeled, in a tasteful way) and a 392 Hemi with a 4sp. That's all I remember about the car. The interior had a pair of bucket seats. That was at least 48years ago. The car was just sitting off in a corner of one of my Dad's friend who rode motorcycles with him and my Granddad. Never saw the car out of that garage and no idea whatever happened to it. Love to have that car, but who knows where it is or what shape it is in.  

      The CBX thing is One story, but to think of the Hemi Super Bee that there just weren't very many around, is just too eerie to me. To think of one of those in a situation like that, is just Too much.
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Re: Is this a repost or just WOW!
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2010, 12:07:03 PM »
CBX's were given to high school auto shops for training and many were never touched. They surface every now and then when someone finds a way to slide it out of school storage. That's the way I heard it anyhow.
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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2010, 12:48:52 PM »
When I worled at our local Kawi dealer I purchased my now since destroyed 85 GPZ750Turbo.

I got it in boxes and built it from nothing.

Then I discovered a rather large crate with the same markings on the tags, but from 84.

So I dug a little deeper. And buried in about 500 mangled gas tanks and fenders I found an original uncrated 84 Kawasaki GPZ750 Turbo. Stock number 23.

I talked to the dealer owner and agreed on a price for the crate plus my already basketcase bike of $6000.

Two days before I came to pick them both up..... Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan called and offered the owner $40,000 to place it in their museum. Turned out the original paperwork he had put through got their attention.

I could have killed someone.
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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2010, 01:06:20 PM »
When I worled at our local Kawi dealer I purchased my now since destroyed 85 GPZ750Turbo.

I got it in boxes and built it from nothing.

Then I discovered a rather large crate with the same markings on the tags, but from 84.

So I dug a little deeper. And buried in about 500 mangled gas tanks and fenders I found an original uncrated 84 Kawasaki GPZ750 Turbo. Stock number 23.

I talked to the dealer owner and agreed on a price for the crate plus my already basketcase bike of $6000.

Two days before I came to pick them both up..... Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan called and offered the owner $40,000 to place it in their museum. Turned out the original paperwork he had put through got their attention.

I could have killed someone.

       Aww man!!! :(  That is a Really SAD thing to have happen and YES, I'd be ready to KILL TOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! >:(

         If ONLY you've have completely taken possession of that bike!


                               What a Rip Off! :-\
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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2010, 04:05:15 PM »
Sorry didn't mean to hijack... just wanted to share a familiar feeling.
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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2010, 05:48:56 PM »
Sorry didn't mean to hijack... just wanted to share a familiar feeling.

       HT, I was relating to how you got screwed, on YOUR deal! No Way was I getting on YOU for hijacking. ;) Your story really got to me, on how you got short changed! :-\ 
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« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2010, 10:25:47 PM »
Sorry didn't mean to hijack... just wanted to share a familiar feeling.

       HT, I was relating to how you got screwed, on YOUR deal! No Way was I getting on YOU for hijacking. ;) Your story really got to me, on how you got short changed! :-\ 

LOL bill no worries man. I was just putting it out there so as not to kill the mood for the beloved CB.

Any chance of letting me borrow that GPZ for the summer?  ;) ;) ;) ;) :D :D ;D ;D :P
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« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2010, 04:26:20 AM »
Sorry didn't mean to hijack... just wanted to share a familiar feeling.

       HT, I was relating to how you got screwed, on YOUR deal! No Way was I getting on YOU for hijacking. ;) Your story really got to me, on how you got short changed! :-\ 

LOL bill no worries man. I was just putting it out there so as not to kill the mood for the beloved CB.

Any chance of letting me borrow that GPZ for the summer?  ;) ;) ;) ;) :D :D ;D ;D :P

   Ha! Ha! Tell you what, You come on down and we'll (at least) talk about it. :D ;)
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« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2010, 12:04:24 PM »
OOOOOH!!! I'll bring my cane!!
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« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2010, 12:51:46 PM »
OOOOOH!!! I'll bring my cane!!


      Did you say that you'll bring your CRANE? ???  Sorry, my EYES don't hear as good as they USED TO! ;D

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« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2010, 06:17:04 PM »
CBX's were given to high school auto shops for training and many were never touched. They surface every now and then when someone finds a way to slide it out of school storage. That's the way I heard it anyhow.

I read this recently, but they said it was the Turbo's, especially the 650's IIRC.
I think it was in Motorcycle Classics, I'll see if I can find the article.
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