Honda CB750 K0 Restoration Timelapse [In 20 Minutes!] Motorcycle Project Bike Rebuild | 34

Honda CB750 K0 Restoration Timelapse [In 20 Minutes!] Motorcycle Project Bike Rebuild | 34
Here's the full playlist detailing the restoration work I did to this lovely Honda CB750 K0 in candy blue green: • 1970 Honda CB750 K0 Re...
We decided to restore one of the superbikes from the 70’s that Old Spanner had never owned, a Honda CB750 K. After some research we found that most of the Honda CB750 K series are very similar, and over half a million of them were produced over around 10 years. So we thought it shouldn’t be too hard to find one. Having discussed it we decided that I should look for a K0 preferably a Sandcast, but not essentially. The reason we decided upon the K0 model was so that when the day came to let it go, we would get the best price for it. As the number following the K gets bigger the value of the bikes gets lower, with the K7s and 8’s despite being technically the best models, also being the cheapest.
Unfortunately, this price differential is also reflected in the project bike prices, with a project K0 costing more than a pretty good condition K7. And if it is a Sandcast (basically the same bike but with the engine cases made using a simpler casting method) then add an additional £8k to the price.
Having looked for a while we spotted one listed by a company in the USA on eBay. I noticed their listings of a variety of interesting bikes on eBay offering free delivery to the UK for a couple of years. But I hadn’t been brave enough to buy one. This one was a K0 diecast that had been chopperised at some time in the past. A non-runner with high bars and a king and queen seat. There was also a box of some of the harder-to-find parts, air filters, badges etc. The bike was on bidding, but the starting price looked attractive, and as it stood the bike was unattractive enough to hopefully repel other bidders.
Well, we won the bidding on the bike, and after only 8 weeks it arrived in the UK from the States. I think we even got it at a very good price. This video is a compilation from our playlist of videos showing the things we did with it to get it into what I would say is a very nice state. Unfortunately, another project popped up that caught my eye, so I let it go before I had finalised the restoration. The main stumbling block was the 4-into-4 exhausts that the K series came with. Good repro versions cost nearly as much as the bike originally cost us, and most of the used ones that came up looked like scrap, but expensive scrap!
The chap who bought the bike was really pleased, he added it to his collection of all of the different K’s having put on a set of exhausts that he had been hoarding. He must have felt he got a good deal, as he contacts me every few months asking if I had found and restored any other bikes he may be interested in 🙂
Anyway if you enjoy this video, why not watch the playlist, you should find the things we did quite entertaining.
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