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hi, i'm new, and this is my bike
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82 kawaski csr1000 Evolved into a streetfighter.
I love Speed! Hot Nasty Badass Speed!!!
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Nice paint!
1980 KZ750-H1 (slightly altered)
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1979 GS1000 "Dadzuki"
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Nice bike!
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Tell us more about restoring vintage military vehicles if you don't mind. I am a former hardcore collector of militaria and current amatuer historian with a curious mind.
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1979 KZ SR650, stock candy persimmon red and crossover pipes
1981 KZ 1000LTD with non stock and more comfortable handle bars and 4 into one V&H
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Tell me about hte bars...I like. My clubmans w/ rearsets get a tad uncommfy much past 20-30 miles....
(Must be gettin' old)
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Kawasaki Motorcycles...because cars lean th wrong way!
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1980 KZ650F1, Bought new out the door for $2,162.98!
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this was one of the earliest models of the american halftrack, my father found it at an auction, it had been used to string powerlines in the backwoods of minnesota up and down hilly terrain, the frame was bent as a result and it was missing the armor from the cab back, we measured armor off another one and had to fabricate our own, it took 3 years to finish this one off.
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picks of the halftrack:
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Post edited by: themachine, at: 2007/01/17 23:49
82 kawaski csr1000 Evolved into a streetfighter.
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we took a chevy pickup frame and and put the body on that, it has dana 44's with 4:56 gears and 42" superswampers, making the power is a 468 big block chevy, 12.5:1 compression, lumpy cam, ported heads, h beam rods, 1,100CFM predator, with a built turbo 400 and a new process geardrive transfer case.
it has leather seats from a suburban and a new canvas top.
these are very rare, after the war these were usually bought by farmers and they chopped the back off of them to turn em into flatbeds, we were lucky enough to find a rear portion and weld it on, the body had tons of holes to fill too, had to chop the firewall back to get the engine to fit.
sadly i only have two pics of it, my father sold it after we finished the half track to pay off the bills
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the interior is horrible, no motors no trans, was origionally powerd by two flathead caddy v-8's, were putting in two chevy small block 400's and two turbo hydramatic 400 transmissions, my dad managed to find a bunch of NOS parts for it, even a NOS rebuilt transfer case, that halftrack has a nos motor and a nos trans but were putting the restoration on hold until we get another hot rod truck finished.
my father also has a yard full of other trucks/projects, including two M4 artillary tractors (tanks without aurmor) a couple of powerwagons, a vietnam mack, a Huge 1941 Dimond T wrecker an all origional M37 with superswampers on it and a weapons carrier.
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heres an inside pic from the engine bay doors looking at the front, note the old transfercase at the very front, it used to be all white at inside when new
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heres a pic of the breech inside the turret looking down, oddly enough we found an old Barbie jammed down the barrel when we got it opened.
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82 kawaski csr1000 Evolved into a streetfighter.
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A big WELCOME to ya! I really like that color! Nice ride....
Tell me about hte bars...I like. My clubmans w/ rearsets get a tad uncommfy much past 20-30 miles....
(Must be gettin' old)<br><br>Post edited by: indykaw77, at: 2007/01/17 22:57
i got the bars off of ebay brand new, paid 27 bucks total, they barly clear the tank, they have an inch rise, are 28 inches wide, and the pullback is about 2.5' after about 30 minutes of riding my back starts to hurt and i'm only 19, but the look and feel are worth it, its also a lot easier to control too compared to those baby apes i used to have on.
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