Andrew, I'm seriously jealous. When I saw this posted the other day, I started to PM you and offer you $1,000 for the Bomber, but I need it like a hole in the head. You might go back and look at some of my history to find that 2 years ago, I restored a Black Bomber. I'm very passionate about that bike and to this day - it is my favorite restoration project. By the way, you have the later model 1966 or 1967. The front of the seat gives that away. There are no numbers published for numbers made and they were titled in the year sold, all are K0's - the last year model Honda did that.
Let me get this out. This is none of my business, but I would love to see this one kept original and restored. You have what I consider to be one of the "best" all-original examples I've seen. That bike has 99% of it's original parts, something that will help considerably when restored.
Here is the hard part - you are going to have to make a decision if you want to restore this bike - you will either have to repair, rebuild, refinish every one of the "original" pieces or get ready to spend big money. You simply cannot find/buy factory parts for these - nothing is interchangable, and there are many, many parts you won't find. Be careful just trying to "patch it up" - if you go to pulling stuff off and messing with it, me and others who collect these will lose interest -fast.
1) You could list it as-is and in the right market, I think get $1,500~2,000 for it as-is.
2) You can part it out and do it correctly and get $3,000 + for it. The darn seat alone is probably worth $500`600. The rims are not replaceable. The DID Diamond markings 36 spokes, 18" just aren't to be found. The speedo's go for $200~600 each. Tanks and panels go for $400~500, the list goes on.
If you wanted to restore it to like new with mostly factory NOS, I will tell you now that you will spend 350+ professional hours of engine and body restoration time plus in excess of $14,000 in parts - This 1967 cost me $20,000 and over 1 year to accomplish. I am not tooting my own horn, just want you to make an educated decission before you either destroy a piece of history or decide to restore it yourself with the idea of doing it for a few hundred, or worse from PartsNMore and cheap eBay reproductions. If money and skill are limited, put the bike in safe, dry storage until you can devote time and resources - I think they will become so rare, you'll get your money back 20 fold - I could see that bike bringing $10,000 in 20 years - just like it is.
Regards, Gordon
