Talked to the original owner of my 900 today.

I purchased my green 76 900 from the original owner about 20 years ago from a co-worker of my brother. I'm off work today so i took my brown 900 for a ride and i ended up near my brother's old work place. I stopped in not expecting anyone to reconize the name of the original owner and sure enough he still works there. I was shocked! He said he heard the distictive sound of a kz with a kerker pull up and he quickly came out. He told me when he was in the sales room of Eastpoint Kawasaki back in 1976 with his then girlfriend (now wife) he was speaking with the new buyer of another green 76 900. Shortly after their conversation that guy drove off on the 900 that he just then purchased. The owner of my bike was still dealing with the salesman about to leave with his 900 when another man came into the dealer to tell everybody that the guy that just bought that green 900 was just killed when he lost control and hit a guardrail. The owner of my bike told me that his girlfriend told him "not to buy it, that this was a sign" Of course he still bought it. He told me he has many pics of the bike including from the day that he bought it. I can't wait for him to dig them out so i can make copies of them. It's nice to learn some history about a old car or bike.

Sorry about the customer that got killed
but those pic's from the day your bike left the dealership with the new owner, ...will be AWESOME,
Pete

Eastpoint Kawasaki?

In April 1977 I saw a beautiful new blue KZ650-C1 sitting on the showroom floor at American Kawasaki in Glen Burnie, and I immediately knew I had to have one. It had a “SOLD” tag hanging on it, so I asked the salesman if he could get another one in for me. “Sorry, we only got the one bike in blue and can get no more. “ I went to Eastpoint Kawasaki and there was a blue one on the showroom floor. I was willing to pay full retail; as I said, I had to have one. I asked the salesman “how much” and that A-hole said “well that depends on how bad you want it.” Totally pissed at his smart-ass remark I told him I had been willing to pay full price, but now I wouldn’t buy it from him if he offered it for $50. I turned and walked out leaving that idiot with his mouth hanging open.

I could find no other dealer with a blue one, so I returned to American Kawasaki and asked the salesman if he was positive he couldn’t get one from another dealer or elsewhere. He said he could not, but he asked me to wait while he spoke with the manager. He came back, pulled the “SOLD” tag off the blue bike, and told me the buyer had not been back in since putting a deposit on it 2 weeks earlier so he would sell it to me. It was now mine! I still have it! Ed

when Iwas a kid I used to walk over to glen burnie mall from camp mead road .

Oh and only thing I ever bought there was that anagodadevida album or single long ago

650ed wrote: Eastpoint Kawasaki?

In April 1977 I saw a beautiful new blue KZ650-C1 sitting on the showroom floor at American Kawasaki in Glen Burnie, and I immediately knew I had to have one. It had a “SOLD” tag hanging on it, so I asked the salesman if he could get another one in for me. “Sorry, we only got the one bike in blue and can get no more. “ I went to Eastpoint Kawasaki and there was a blue one on the showroom floor. I was willing to pay full retail; as I said, I had to have one. I asked the salesman “how much” and that A-hole said “well that depends on how bad you want it.” Totally pissed at his smart-ass remark I told him I had been willing to pay full price, but now I wouldn’t buy it from him if he offered it for $50. I turned and walked out leaving that idiot with his mouth hanging open.

I could find no other dealer with a blue one, so I returned to American Kawasaki and asked the salesman if he was positive he couldn’t get one from another dealer or elsewhere. He said he could not, but he asked me to wait while he spoke with the manager. He came back, pulled the “SOLD” tag off the blue bike, and told me the buyer had not been back in since putting a deposit on it 2 weeks earlier so he would sell it to me. It was now mine! I still have it! Ed

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Hey Ed, when a deposit is put down and the guy doesn't come back, does he get his money back when he does?
just wondering.
You were meant to have it.
Steve

The salesman said he would return the other guy's deposit if the other guy ever came back. Ed

What a fantastic story Ed !!! Wonder what they would say if you dropped by to show the bike? If they are still there of course

I believe they sold out long ago. The old building has not been occupied for years. Ed

Pretty cool to get the story of your bike like that

That seems so crazy about the bad news of the biker who died crashing into a guardrail... Really sucks to have someone walk into the motorcycle dealership and let everyone know such somber news

love the bike ed she is beautiful