My American Dream (CB400T Hawk 1980)
Nov 22, 2020 22:46:38 GMT
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Post by comstar on Nov 22, 2020 22:46:38 GMT
Just wanted to put these before and after shots on the forum.
For those that are new and did not follow the original resto thread on the past forum I frequented, I bought this bike via ebay around April 2018 for I think it was 400 odd US dollars. At that time, I knew I was going to be heading to the States some months later and before bidding on it the seller agreed to hold it until I could pick it up, as long as I paid for it.
It was a risk......but in the end, all came good. The bike was located up at a place called Bethel Island in the Bay area of California - basically a good 5 hour trip from where we ended up living. So I got a good courier quote to bring her down to me. To my disbelief, the bike turned up in the back of an old Japanese estate car with lots of other stuff ON ITS SIDE !!! Good job it was an old bike that needed restoration otherwise I'd have not been happy. The bike was completed finally around December 2019 and she found a new owner shorty afterwards (had an offer I could not refuse and wanted to get a BSA I'd seen for sale). I am pleased to say that the bike went to a hard core Honda collector and is being cared for very well.
I really enjoyed doing the bike on the whole, it was something I always wanted to do, find a US Superdream and restore it - and this was the perfect example to do it to. I was also lucky in that I found a NOS tank in the exact colour scheme from David Silver spares....an amazing stroke of luck.
Here she is, before and after:
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For those that are new and did not follow the original resto thread on the past forum I frequented, I bought this bike via ebay around April 2018 for I think it was 400 odd US dollars. At that time, I knew I was going to be heading to the States some months later and before bidding on it the seller agreed to hold it until I could pick it up, as long as I paid for it.
It was a risk......but in the end, all came good. The bike was located up at a place called Bethel Island in the Bay area of California - basically a good 5 hour trip from where we ended up living. So I got a good courier quote to bring her down to me. To my disbelief, the bike turned up in the back of an old Japanese estate car with lots of other stuff ON ITS SIDE !!! Good job it was an old bike that needed restoration otherwise I'd have not been happy. The bike was completed finally around December 2019 and she found a new owner shorty afterwards (had an offer I could not refuse and wanted to get a BSA I'd seen for sale). I am pleased to say that the bike went to a hard core Honda collector and is being cared for very well.
I really enjoyed doing the bike on the whole, it was something I always wanted to do, find a US Superdream and restore it - and this was the perfect example to do it to. I was also lucky in that I found a NOS tank in the exact colour scheme from David Silver spares....an amazing stroke of luck.
Here she is, before and after:
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