Royboy
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You may recall that early last June a buddy of mine dropped the 77' D resto in a too tight curve. The last couple of months have been spent bringing her back to life. As you can see, we've strayed a bit further from the stock appearance and managed to do a few things that I'd been wanting to try anyway.
We had a discussion here about color and a number of options were considered. In the end I decided to go with a brassy red metallic from Ford. It keeps the general look of the original and, to my eye, compliments the gold metallic in the decals.
Since stock was not the way this was going to go we decided to change a number of items. Indicators, front fender, tail light, headlight stays, mirrors, chain guard and a few other bits went to the aftermarket.
ggggary supplied a fuel tank, foot peg, speedo bucket and good counsel. Thanks Gary!
In the accident the bars went hard left, snapped off the steering stop and the fork got into the tank, killing it. The steering stem and triple tree were rebuilt and new bearings installed. We're still tuning a bit to get the same light feel she had before.
Here are a few pics. Hope you approve.
roy
We had a discussion here about color and a number of options were considered. In the end I decided to go with a brassy red metallic from Ford. It keeps the general look of the original and, to my eye, compliments the gold metallic in the decals.
Since stock was not the way this was going to go we decided to change a number of items. Indicators, front fender, tail light, headlight stays, mirrors, chain guard and a few other bits went to the aftermarket.
ggggary supplied a fuel tank, foot peg, speedo bucket and good counsel. Thanks Gary!
In the accident the bars went hard left, snapped off the steering stop and the fork got into the tank, killing it. The steering stem and triple tree were rebuilt and new bearings installed. We're still tuning a bit to get the same light feel she had before.
Here are a few pics. Hope you approve.
roy