Prototype Honda CB750 sold at auction

By David Ellis
Updated March 13 2018 - 9:52pm, first published 9:36pm
A HALF-CENTURY:  Old, and a snap at 161,000 pounds (AU$287,000) at auction in England.  Photo: H&H Classics Auctions
A HALF-CENTURY: Old, and a snap at 161,000 pounds (AU$287,000) at auction in England. Photo: H&H Classics Auctions

A FIFTY YEAR old prototype of a Honda CB750 motorcycle, a machine that was to go on to be dubbed “the world’s first superbike,” has sold in England for an extraordinary 161,000 pounds (that’s AU$287,000,) making it the world’s most expensive motorcycle ever sold at auction.

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