Year Built vs Year Sold List/Log?

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:41 am

Rob, I'd be more than happy to collate a database along similar lines for the C/CA and the CL if members would care to furnish me with frame & engine nºs and definitive data (harness year tag info / defininte date of first reg) for '65> bikes. Just PM the info and I'll compare it to the Bill Silver data that is printed in the red HERG manual.

GeorgeP1111 · Post by **GeorgeP1111** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:37 am

Hoosier Tom wrote:George, My Honda guide shows the CA77s sold into 1969 in the US. I have a Honda brochure laying around somewhere that shows the 1969 CB750 and the CA77 along with some other offerings for 1969.HT

From what I have read here and elsewhere, the last year for production on the CA77's was 1967, but the remaining stock was sold (and titled by the year sold) into 1969. Like I posted above, mine is titled as a 1968 yet by the engine number it appears there were at least 9,743 CA's built after mine, so I'm figuring that mine had to be built pre '67. I know that it really doesn't make much difference what year it was built.... It's just that I like the Bragging Rights.

If you do find the brochure you mentioned, it would be great if you could post it somewhere. The CA77 & CB750 together, now that would be fun to see. I bought a new CB750 in 1973, 1 year after I bought my first used CA77.

George

GeorgeP1111 · Post by **GeorgeP1111** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:42 am

e3steve wrote:I'll compare it to the Bill Silver data that is printed in the red HERG manual.

I gotta ask... What is the HERG manual? I have Bill's CD and I didn't see anything in there that matches HERG.

tnx
George

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:42 pm

GeorgeP1111 wrote:
e3steve wrote:I'll compare it to the Bill Silver data that is printed in the red HERG manual.
I gotta ask... What is the HERG manual? I have Bill's CD and I didn't see anything in there that matches HERG.

tnx
George

Honda Engine Repair Guide.

Hoosier Tom · Post by **Hoosier Tom** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:30 am

George, I found the brochure. Got it years ago along with a 1969 CL175 from the original owner.

HT

brewsky · Post by **brewsky** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:18 pm

Interesting the absence of CB, CL models from the chart.

Wonder if this means some were possibly manufactured after '67.....contrary to popular belief?

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:59 pm

I'd say not, Brew. '68 saw the first of the CB250K & 350K models, the best-looking of which is arguably the Jap domestic model, as owned by Bech in Oz.

Production of the 305 models is documented as ceasing in '67. The brochure entry is most likely to be a result of overzealous dealer-stocking 'at the right price' from the factory.

Note the omission of "Touring" derivatives of the later sixties' & early seventies' models; so perhaps those models became less popular in showrooms? As such, the factory supply of the Super Sports (Superhawks) & Scramblers became exhausted in a timely manner, thus coinciding with the release of the 'Ks' & 'SLs', and with the ageing, obsolete pressed-frame design becoming caught up in the changeover to sports tourers.