I picked up this 50 pan a couple of weeks ago. It had a bunch of cool shit with it including a complete B&H shifter set up with clutch booster, special lever, cable, the works. A front brake aluminum cooling ring, nice original frame, speedo, cool dual exhaust set up, etc. The inspection sticker is from 1970. The thing has been sitting since then.
The weird thing is the bike was once painted yellow...all of it, right down to the frame and triple trees. It has black paint and a lot of grease and grime on top of the yellow paint on the frame like it was together and running for many years with the black frame. The tanks have yellow paint under the blue also. The front fender is a different color blue so I'm guessing with the B&H and the yellow frame, tanks and triple trees it was probably one funky bob job in it's day or something like that.
My plan for this thing was to pull off all the cool shit I wanted and sell the frame, motor, forks, tanks and fenders in one lump...hhhmmm... Not so fast... I was walking out of the shop tonight and turned around and took a long look at the pan...man the engine cases are in perfect condition, original serial number matching belly numbers, beautiful cam cover, gears, cam, heads (it was missing a head but I had a spare). The frame needs a couple of minor fixes, the tanks are clean as a whistle inside, there are boxes of original hardware and just about every part to put it back together. Nice original wheels and tires, generator, etc. etc.
My plan for this thing was to pull off all the cool shit I wanted and sell the frame, motor, forks, tanks and fenders in one lump...hhhmmm... Not so fast... I was walking out of the shop tonight and turned around and took a long look at the pan...man the engine cases are in perfect condition, original serial number matching belly numbers, beautiful cam cover, gears, cam, heads (it was missing a head but I had a spare). The frame needs a couple of minor fixes, the tanks are clean as a whistle inside, there are boxes of original hardware and just about every part to put it back together. Nice original wheels and tires, generator, etc. etc.
Fuck...I'm gonna build it!
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