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What year is my \"new\" KZ?
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I ask because my only experience is with classic VWs and they use a model year release which is based upon August. Thus, a Vdub built in Aug.1969 would actually be a 1970 model Vdub.
Here's a pic of my newly acquired KZ's plate:
Perhaps ironic; it's built in Aug.1978 :lol:
So what year is this bike?
A 1978?
A 1979?
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Perhaps someone more in the know can help out?
Later, Doug
1978 z1000 Streetfighter
1976 z900 Stripfighter (work in progress)
1983 Gpz750 Resto-Mod
1989 Vmax
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models.kz650.info/index.htm
Oklahoma City, OK
78 KZ650 B2 82,000+ miles
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- Live each day as it is your last
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C1 1977 KZ650C-000001 ~
C2 1978 KZ650C-010001 ~
C3 1979 KZ650C-022801 ~
C4 1980 KZ650C-033001 ~
Ed
1977 KZ650-C1 Original Owner - Stock (with additional invisible FIAMM horn)
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As usual you ROCK
I had such fun with the 440 over the past month and then to happen upon an auction yesterday with this KZ pathetically laying down in the tall grass of a closing biker dealer's "bone yard"... I just couldn't help myself. It was the only KZ street bike in hundreds and noone wanted it?
Just in case you want to see what it looked like by the time I extracted it from the tall grass, grappled with the frozen rear discs, winched it up into my truck and finally got it hauled "home". Here's a few pics to scare ya (actually, it scares me - what am I thinking?):
I think you might be reading more questions from me in the future
Some of those "wires" hanging down are actually tall grass
Dunno exactly what is missing here, but sure looks like "something ain't right 'bout that..."
Reasonably low miles... No?
Trying to drain gas from a locked gas tank :huh:
Rust? Naw!!! That's "patina" :lol: it adds value
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1977 KZ650C1
and the KZ650/KZ750 Conversion
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1977 KZ1000A1, 1979 KZ650 C3
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1973 Z1
KZ900 LTD
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You can open that kind if lock with a small screwdriver, you don't need a key.
:lol: I figured I'd be smart and instead just use my 440's key to open it... no such luck. the darn thing would just spin around 360 degrees and not "pop" the gas flap?
I finally resorted to using a drift punch and knocking-out the hinge pin and pulling it off. I dismantled the locking cylinder to discover the return springs were all shreaded and the cylinder's pin that operates the locking lever had been sheared-off apparenly long ago
So this KZ will need (amoung many things now) another gas cap too :dry:
It's like the things you'd expect to be a problem aren't and the things you'd never expect to be are baffling. More things to make you go "Hmmmmm?"
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