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by carabener » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:57 am
In the world of Honda CB77/72 accessories, the exceptionally rare factory ‘violin case’ accessory “820” seat remains an enigma. In black (A-model) and blue (U-model) the correct 1960’s factory subtle light blue color seat that came on blue CB72’s and CB77’s we bought in 1962-3 and the same color as an early factory NOS Lt blue violin case seat that an ebay seller sold last year for $710.00 on Ebay. Light blue, in the box and wrapper, and only mislabeled on the box as a 670A, which was the black hump seat.
Like CB77’s in the late 1980’s maybe folks will start dragging these ultra-rare violin case seats out of the woodwork or barn, if they’re ‘sitting on them’ (literally) or figuratively when they find out an NOS or ‘like new’ 820 seat sold for $1,000.00 at a recent CW motorcycle show. Considered the Mercedes of seats, I’m told sitting on a violin case seat is Nirvana.
Conversation has it this factory accessory seat was only a 100-150 unit run because of cost considerations eg. making a new stronger, wider, longer seat pan, a more involved, expensive construction process, and materials. The violin case seat was dropped in favor of the later humped front-end, thicker padded “670A” model using the original cheaper seat pan. There was supposedly a factory notice or parts bulletin about the 820.
Does anyone have a copy of that bulletin? And is ‘820’ the correct factory suffix number for this seat? Thanks for any help, and lucky you if you find one!
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carabener on Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:10 am, edited 1 time in total.
