1968 CB750 PRE-PRODUCTION PROTOTYPE

OWNER: Tony Brown, Blackburn, Lancashire

This is the bike that made history when it sold for £161,000 at H&H Auctions’ sale earlier this year. Tony – here with partner Tracey Harwood – is a diehard CB750 fan. “We’re into our bikes big time and a CB750-K8 was our first big bike. Within minutes of the sale, the bidding was up over £100,000, but it’s unique, isn’t it? I thought: ‘when are you going to get the chance to buy a bike like this again?’ and just kept going.”

Just four prototypes were built and this is one of two surviving. It’s the bike Honda used to promote the launch of the production CB750 in the UK during 1969.