Kev Raymond keeps his eye on the choppy waters of the classic world to see if any projects, donors and bargains are out there worthy of being dragged out of the surf for some mouth-to-mouth…
1997 Honda CB50 Dream
Asking: £1999
If you look at this and don’t immediately start mentally working out which forks you’ll fit and what engine you can shoehorn in there, you might be reading the wrong magazine… The Dream 50 (or AC15 to give it its factory designation) was a Japanese market-only retro designed to evoke the firm’s 1960s racers. The 50cc engine had double overhead camshafts, but rice pudding
