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I am sure that the resto of it was time consuming but most likely a labor of love. Kudos to Cam for finding and sharing.
The paint looks a foot thick even on my old roached out piece of hell pooter. Well done Newmann, as all of your shit seems to be. Let's just hope that it finds a good home with his brethren, gets ridden and some button pusher doesn't ass up the decals.
Looks great Newmann.
Of all Moto X Fox replica paint jobs I've only seen one that looks right.
Now I've seen two .
What swingarm are you going with on your open class Honda Joe?
The Shop
Newman that is sereously peachy!
As you said, Honda never primered anything, just enough paint to cover up the welds, even on production stuff!!
I mangaged to find some pics of Hollys tank, you can see, the fornt mounts are a little different, and obviuosly the tap mounting is for a std tap but he got it pretty close!
As for the swinger Max, I got an old DG/ProFab from flea bay a few years ago. It needed some work in the pivot area and had the usual gouges and nicks but I plan to paint it red anyway.
Holly does some neat pieces!
I met a pretty amazing guy at a vintage practice that had built replica 125s of a RC Honda , Fox 125 and a old YZ that looks to me like a OW and would have thought it was if he didn't tell me. His tank is the other Fox tank that looks like the real deal to me
Not originals, I know, but the closest I'll ever get probably
I feel as nice as those bikes you mentioned are, his claim to fame must be his 1974 CR 125 resto's. He has a fantastic eye for detail. I prefer his Works bikes, but when I sit down and listen to him talk about other restorations and how little things like using the wrong carb top or model year kickstarter, you can appreciate his eye for detail, as these were $10,000.00 bikes he was talking about.
Even more amazing.........if you could have seen where all these bikes were built before he built his shop. OMG, I would not even store parts there. LOL
Look his page up on Facebook. Stevens Works Designs. I think that is it, I will double check and correct it if I am wrong.
Richard
I really like the tanks Swatdoc. To me it doesn't matter in the least they aren't original. They are every bit as bad ass.
Was the top tank run on the 250? I kind of remember a tank with that shape on a open bike. You would know. I'm just recalling something I've seen in a old Moden Cycle magazine 37 years ago
It's amazing you guys are building something no one would have dreamed possible back when we were punk kids
Was Hondas purpose for adding to the 125 tank like that because the stock tank wasn't making 45min motos?
Just like computerized machining equipment has made replicating works parts possible, I hope fabricating works tanks becomes easier and cheaper. I remeber when I got all excited in 78 when the RM125 came with a plastic tank. No more dents and ugly paint wearing knee rubs.
Now the 77 Suzuki and 79 CR tanks were the coolest production tanks ever
Where is this Mungenast museum??
Richard
Pit Row
Was it because they were running the rear numberplates to go with the new Euro rules and could alter them for some kind of stupid style or did the FoX Airs push them out too far? I like the look now because it's a historical piece of Moto history but at the time it looked like Honda took a clean style Works bike and did something a C Class open class racer would do to his bike to pass tech. At the time I thought Honda may as well used electrical tape for numbers.
But if I had a 79 Honda now and that cool tank SwatDoc has I would do the same thing
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