Beschreibung
This is Lot 425 in the Bonhams Spring Stafford Sale on April 20 & 21, please see the Bonhams website for full details.
Honda's first twin-cylinder motorcycle - the 250cc C7 - arrived in 1957 and would go on to form the basis of an extended range of similar twins in smaller and larger capacities. Displacing 305cc, the first of the latter were introduced in 1958 as the C75 tourer and CS76 'street scrambler'. These early Honda twins featured - to European eyes - somewhat idiosyncratic styling with their boxy leading-link fork, pressed-steel frame and swinging-arm, deeply valanced mudguards and enclosed drive chain. They were, nevertheless, extremely well engineered and well specified, boasting overhead camshafts and electric starters at a time when such advanced features were virtually unheard of in Europe.
An example of Honda's 305cc tourer in its later C78 form was previously registered overseas. First registered in the UK in 2016, the Dream has belonged to our vendor since September 2021. The machine appears to be an older restoration. The odometer reading is 9, 358 miles (possibly the distance covered since the rebuild) and the Honda is overall a tidy machine that would benefit from detailing. Used up to last year on occasional Sunday runs, the Dream is described by our vendor as 'a nice, easy and light bike to handle'. The machine is offered with V5C document, a Clymer manual, and some photocopied material.
