Below are before/after photos of the '87 VFR750, resplendent in its new Rothmans livery, and both Interceptors ready for action!
Recently a reader from beautiful New Zealand contacted me with some questions about his 1986 VFR700 project. I had to ask, how did a U.S. "tariff-buster" 700cc end up 6700 miles distant on the bottom of the globe? His reply: "We get all sorts of bikes imported into NZ. I have an '86 VFR700 and an "87 VFR750. The 700 is from the USA and the 750 originally came in from Japan. I bought both bikes as projects. The 750 is not totally standard but the 700 is." Below are before/after photos of the '87 VFR750, resplendent in its new Rothmans livery, and both Interceptors ready for action!
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Terry Smith
9/9/2024 04:10:17 pm
I was working part-time at a Honda dealer in the late 80s and the comment around new bikes being imported from other markets is quite correct. In 86 the NZ-market VFR750F (in pearl white) retailed for a too-hefty-for-this-poor-student $10,500. The following year, surplus US-market VFR700s arrived in RWB colours for $8634 and I bought one immediately. These arrived with mph speedos and no centrestand, plus the usual EPA cannisters and wotnot. We also had Japanese-domestic market bikes like the VF400F, and other brands did similar things to land discount-priced bikes into NZ.
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