Looking at buying a restore project

hawker74 · Post by **hawker74** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:24 pm

Hi everyone, thanks for allowing me to join this great forum! I’m looking for a little advice; I am considering buying a CB77 I came across as a restore project. The asking price is $550.
It’s very dusty and been stored for 30 years but looks mostly complete. I’m trying to sort out the year of the bike. The seller advertised it as a 1960 but from what I can see it’s a 66 or newer. The serial number is CB77–1045713. Does anyone know how to determine the actual year? Any other advice? Good price? Run? Lol
Thanks very much!

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:31 am

Welcome to the forum.

Yes , you're right. A '61 bike would have '11' at the beginning of the chassis number.

Yours would be post '65 and '66 would be a good guess. Honda stopped using year designations after '65.

Under the tank there will be a white tag on the wiring harness which gives a date of manufacture for the harness.

Good price if it is all there.

G

hawker74 wrote:Hi everyone, thanks for allowing me to join this great forum! I’m looking for a little advice; I am considering buying a CB77 I came across as a restore project. The asking price is $550.
It’s very dusty and been stored for 30 years but looks mostly complete. I’m trying to sort out the year of the bike. The seller advertised it as a 1960 but from what I can see it’s a 66 or newer. The serial number is CB77–1045713. Does anyone know how to determine the actual year? Any other advice? Good price? Run? Lol
Thanks very much!

Merz64cb77 · Post by **Merz64cb77** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:30 am

Do you any pictures of the bike?

Is the bike registered to the owner and does it turn over or is the engine seized? I assume the bike does have keys?

If you re willing to put the time and money into the bike it could be a good project.

DerekSuperhawk305 · Post by **DerekSuperhawk305** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:01 am

hawker74 wrote:Hi everyone, thanks for allowing me to join this great forum! I’m looking for a little advice; ......... The seller advertised it as a 1960 but from what I can see it’s a 66 or newer. The serial number is CB77–1045713. Does anyone know how to determine the actual year? Any other advice? Good price? Run? Lol
Thanks very much!

I am in the same boat but, I inherited a Superhawk from my late uncle...the VIN is close to yours...CB77-10429xx and with the responses I have received from various sources...I am dating my Superhawk as a late 1966.
1966 and 1967 had a few different features...if we know the production numbers for 1967, we could work backwards with the numbers....
I have been in contact with Bill "MrHonda" Silver, who has help out a great deal !

Derek

Seadog · Post by **Seadog** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:01 am

$550 for a complete bike, even a non-runner, sounds good to me. I’d go for it. Mine with a frame number a few thousand earlier has a 1966 harness tag.

DerekSuperhawk305 · Post by **DerekSuperhawk305** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:16 am

Seadog wrote:$550 for a complete bike, even a non-runner, sounds good to me. I’d go for it. Mine with a frame number a few thousand earlier has a 1966 harness tag.

Thanks for the input on your frame number...that just reassures me that my CB77-10429xx is a 1966.

hawker74 · Post by **hawker74** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:16 pm

Thanks very much for the replies! Very helpful! I'll post some pics when I pick it up this week.

Cheers

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