Looking for some ideas on value. I work for a non profit in Seattle and a generous donor gave us this little beauty through our car donation program. I saw how nice it was and pulled it from the normal wholesale route. It's a 74 CB360T with 22,000 original miles. Well cared for and cosmetically in very good shape. We got a local shop that specializes in older stuff and does a lot of cafe conversions to donate a tune-up/fix whatever it needs kind of deal after we thew a battery in it, some new gas and got it running. It had been sitting for a couple of years.
They did a tune up, carb sync/clean, valve adjust, timing, new oil, lubed the cables, etc. It runs great now. I rode it today as did my donation center manager. They said it was in great shape, has good compression, etc. Very well cared for during its life. Everything works and the tires are in good shape, not old or rotted.
Our plan is to polish it up more, get a new seat made with a slight cafe style, put some clip on bars on it and a few other things and roll it up on the stage at our annual auction gala in October. It is all original now and we'll keep everything we pull off of it in case a purist is in attendance. This event usually does $700,000 in revenue and some well heeled folks attend. I am telling our fundraising staff I think it will go between $2,000 and $3,000 but I'm hoping for several drunk guys in their 50's who had one of these as their first bike to attend and maybe bid it up to $5,000 or so.
Any opinions on real and then slightly inflated night of the auction with several glasses of wine value? I can't wait to see this thing in all of its glory get sold.
