Post by timpa136 on Sept 24, 2019 11:26:38 GMT -5
The following is from the magazine,
Justin Schmidt spent 400 hours restoring his 1977 Suzuki GT750, the first liquid-cooled production motorcycle and the first to have twin disc brakes. It may have been 400 hours of work, but it was years finding all the parts.
“The gauges had to go to Barbados,” he said. “There’s one guy, one guy, who does the gauges and he’d retired and moved to Barbados. He had those gauges for eight months. I thought they were gone forever.”
But they came back, better than new. There was another part issue, three little plastic parts that disintegrated and for which he never thought he’d find replacements.
“Then my son found that the petcock on the Honda P50 (moped) was the same part number.”
He ordered three of them.
autoweek.com/article/car-life/japanese-classic-car-show-overflows-its-new-long-beach-location?utm_source=daily-drive&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190924&utm_content=article5-image
Didn't attend the show but thought this may be of some interest. Complements and accolades, Justin.
Tim
Justin Schmidt spent 400 hours restoring his 1977 Suzuki GT750, the first liquid-cooled production motorcycle and the first to have twin disc brakes. It may have been 400 hours of work, but it was years finding all the parts.
“The gauges had to go to Barbados,” he said. “There’s one guy, one guy, who does the gauges and he’d retired and moved to Barbados. He had those gauges for eight months. I thought they were gone forever.”
But they came back, better than new. There was another part issue, three little plastic parts that disintegrated and for which he never thought he’d find replacements.
“Then my son found that the petcock on the Honda P50 (moped) was the same part number.”
He ordered three of them.
autoweek.com/article/car-life/japanese-classic-car-show-overflows-its-new-long-beach-location?utm_source=daily-drive&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190924&utm_content=article5-image
Didn't attend the show but thought this may be of some interest. Complements and accolades, Justin.
Tim