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My 78 rm 250 isn't worthy of a tank like that. I bought the bike off a friends Dad, he was the orignal owner. It had been sitting in an old building behind his house unridden since 1980. The sun had done it's usual damage to the plastic and rubber parts but aside from a lot of tarnish and rust it was in great shape.
Now after seeing those tanks I am going to have to polish up the rest of it and make some trick parts of my own. Like others have said ,you didn't just paint some old gas tanks you recreated a piece of history.
Starting to look like a bike. Have to make some brackets to mount the radiator on the front of the triple clamps next and route the coolant lines. I went through the Simon's forks and freshened them up while I had someone else rebuild the Fox Air Shox on the rear. Laydown position Thor/Fox swingarm. Solid black seat cover, no logos. Opaque side panels from DC Plastics. Vintage Iron rear fender and a Petty MX replica front.
Radiator isn't in place yet but the JT Kable Keep is bolted the the front of the upper triple clamp.
Coolant temp guage mounts to the bar mounts.
TyDogs handiwork on top of a bare bead blasted cylinder. Chuck Tannlund provided me with porting specs and some of their carb info. They tried a lot of different things back then. I went through the complete engine, powdercoated the cases, new crankshaft assy., seals, bearings and gaskets. Next up is fitting the Fox pipe and cleaning it up. Threw on a PVL ignition so I know it will always run when I need it to! I do plan on it being ridden from time to time.
I'm not sure if that's a rhetorical question or not.
KT, man you do awesome work! I need some of that; hope that 370 comes out nice. I hear you about the slush fund; that's the only reason the pants went to sale.
Your bike is looking sweet.
And an even more difficult question for FTE....where does one find an NOS preston petty fender?
Pit Row
I've had an NOS yellow stashed for a long time (as well as a red, but that goes on my Honda). Someone also has been selling them on Ebay; ran a couple auctions in sequences (one ended yesterday), so maybe more will come up.
I have a pretty decent 81 YZ250 that has a PP front fender that was initially some shade of yellow with a strong tinge of grayishness. After a good bit of sanding and plastic renew, it looks ok but a shiny replica would look a lot better. I'll check ebay out for an NOS version...though I cringe at thinking what that would go for!
Oh, awesome job with that Zuke Joe. Why'd you do up so many tanks? Selling some of them?
I think this is one of the best threads ever on here!
Newman you are the Picasso of old bikes. GREAT WORK!
I take it you are retired, there is no way I could find time or patience to do that working here at the salt mine.... I won't go into the $$ figure.
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