Finally got an email back from someone selling a 76 for 5k....and I quote, no rust, paint and chrome is perfect, 9k miles, not a museum peice but close.
They sent pictures and a phone number.
The pictures showed the headers pitted, the header collars badly rusted, the frame rusted. All pictues were pitiful, lots of glare.
A phone call ended up revealing the following: fuel tank pin stripes scratched or pelled up, tank clean but put some BB's in it to remove some stuff, head gasket leak (all Hondas did that you know), had it for ten years but only put a couple hundred miles on it, tires dry rotted, spokes broken, cleaned carbs and now it starts good when it's warmed up, blah, blah, blah... have a whole bunch of other old bikes if I was interested in anything else.
There's a sucker born every minute I guess.....just not me. Not today anyway.
The bike looked okay, just not for 5k and I'd put down good money that it has way more than 9k miles on it. Probably worth 2k and then expect to rebuild the engine. But who knows what it really is; could be a dressed up wreck with a bent frame.
Only my speculation of course.....
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