Did Pug Vickers move to Jackson or did they have another store? I bought my avatar bike new at Pug Vickers in Huntingdon, TN in 3/75? World's largest honda dealer was the claim at the time.
Hey Derek,
Good profit on the bike. I think you need to sink it into your bikes now!
They must have moved to Jackson at some point between our purchases.
Their claim was the biggest Honda dealer in the southeast US when I purchased the 750. I went digging for the original bill of sale for their old address (yes I tend to keep stuff forever) but I suspect it was handed over with the application for title. I still have my copy of the title application (told ya I keep stuff forever). The date on it was 6/27/79, so I was twenty and the bike had been sitting on the showroom floor for a long time. They ran an ad in one of the two local papers in Nashville (The Nashville Banner is long deceased - I'm a wealth of unimportant info, eh?). They had a dozen CB750Fs and a dozen CB750Ks left over from '78 and wanted to move them out of their showroom. I think I paid about $1800 for the bike out the door. The Fs IIRC were marked at about $100 more than the Ks. I wanted an F but it took me 12 Fs, and 11 Ks to badger my pop into cosigning on the note.
A few years ago (5ish) I was looking to get some replacement hardware for some portable kennel panels I bought (WTF is this idiot babbling on about?). Over the course of several phone calls I finally ended up with some nice young lady in Jackson TN. I inquired about Pug Vickers shop. It was no more. Seems he'd had a little IRS difficulties and perhaps some other legal woes that shut him down for good.
