This bike was the very definition of a barn find. As best I recall, in the late 1980s, American Honda set up some kind of arrangement to help dealers get rid of their NOS parts. This was way before the Internet so I don't know how it worked, but my buddy worked at a Honda dealership and was able to get hard to find parts at a discount. 

We posted ads in some throwaway newspapers and found a few bikes to fix up. I was still riding my CB 750 that I bought brand new when I got out of Vietnam in 1970. I did my own maintenance and was pretty familiar with 750s so that was the only bikes we worked on. Most of the ones we found had just been sitting out too long so the paint was faded, seats torn, carbs in need of cleaning and had signs of minor damage. 

One guy who contacted us said he had an old 750 that had  been torn down and put in boxes but never put back together. We thought it might make a good parts bike or something so we bought it and put it in the back of my buddy’s garage. We didn't pay too much attention to it for some time because completely restoring it was way beyond our abilities. Then one day he called me up all excited and told me upon closer inspection, he discovered the bike was a sand cast. 

We spent the next two years contacting dealer after dealer in the Honda network checking for the NOS parts we needed to restore the bike. Once we gathered the parts we needed, we found Dennis Trudell, a good bike mechanic with years of experience restoring old 750s and he put it together for us. 

Once restored, we weren't quite sure what to do with it. I did take it out to the Rock Store to show it off a couple of times and I rode it down the street for a movie once. It is just too valuable a bike to be joy riding on so it's just been parked in my garage. I do show it off to a few people from time to time for bragging rights but the time has come to downsize and I just want to find a happy home for my beautiful baby.

The front fender and pipes are Yamiya knock-offs (NOS pipes are crap), it's about 90% NOS parts, the remainder being original. 

No number exhaust pipes

Wrinkle tank

Powder coat frame

New battery

Spokes and rims laced by Buchanans

Early oil filter housing

NOS mirrors

NOS Stanley headlight

NOS speedometer

NOS tachometer