SKINNER

less than 2 weeks left to get the kiddie bikes ready, for the adults to race them! clock is tickin!......haha

its my 1962 chevrolet "work bench" ...it was a limited model, pretty rare. lol, i have had that car since i was 17, and i always treat it like a stepchild, i am pretty sure it hates me.

so since the wife and i were in california visiting my folks i decided to scour craigslist and see if i might be passing by any good deals on the way home. found this 70 in Taft for 225.00 so we picked it up on the way back. Took it partially apart to get it in the family truckster, and away we went. runs good just needs some beautification! "Dodge Magnum!".....its how white trash spell Pick-Up truck! it had a "hitch".....it needed to go bye bye more to come later, just thought i would share. 9 days to make it regatta worthy! nothin like last minute!

rv park right there by the saddle west (it might even belong to the saddle west, i never really paid attention) in pahrump, super easy access, 10 bucks. If your coming back from the D, and you make the right turn in town to start headin to vegas, its on the right hand side just a little ways up the road. If you go that way on the way out, you can fill with fresh there too for free.

how about that push button buddy!......i agree it is weird! its oh so nice though!

pipe worked out pretty good jack, i have drivin it quit a bit up and down the street, and it seems to be workin well and not gettin to hot under there. tee: thats not a bad idea.....then i will know which one is mine!....Its the one that says "baddmuffhugger" on it! got my front tire in, and fenders should be here on friday, pluggin away! :atc: :atc:

either that or the guy started getting 100 calls, and started to rethink the price, like damn i didnt realize this thing was so popular!....i should wait and sell it for twice as much! lol

AL is gonna make me cry, i have to wait frm thursday to saturday for some tasty BBQ, damn! haha, i guess i will survive, see ya saturday! BTW, you may want to count me as two!!....lol

yeah i tried callin last night, actually figured i would pick it up for ogp (your never out of favors) lol, if the guy still had it. but rang twice, sent to voicemail, nobody called me back.

damn that first pic looks like the opening scenes from the dukes of hazard, holy crap.....with the "freeze frame" i can almost hear the narator....."now folks, i dont know about you, but i think them boys are in for a bumpy ride "

:atc: some update pics, still waiting on front tire, rear plastics, and some odds and ends :atc:

:atc: :atc: :atc: .....counting down the dayzzzz can't wait! lookin schweet!!! :atc: :atc: :atc:

haha, we were just sayin that on saturday. nobody's gonna want to get them dirty lol. i am down to mess mine up, i built it with the intention to ride it, its gonna get beat up a bit, so its part of the game! honestly if i had "restored" it i may be a little less likely to beat it up, but since mine is a goofy "theme" bike, it wont break my heart if it gets some "character marks"! but there is gonna have to be some down time prior to judging to get it all purdy again though! looks like i am gonna be sending my next 70 to painter joe though, damn those things are nice! hey tim i noticed you were gettin 3 sets of risers, and whip mounts from randy, but your only showin 2 70's, are you bring out 2 show bike and 1 go bike?! lol

70 drama :ogp: ......thats funny . adults arguing over kids bikes. its all good folks we could do the he said/he said thing all day, but this thread isnt a peepee contest! this is a build thread that is lacking a photo update! lol!! carb didnt help anyway motor has no fire, so it didnt even matter. we just grabbed my stock motor and brought the little 70 back to life, 31 minutes from removing the first bolt on the old motor to pulling the starter cord and firing up the other. it became a game to see how fast we could make it run again. then we started in ISBB's bad a$$ 110....wait til you see it! its beautiful!! anyway, no more thread jack mode, lets get back to Cole's #2 bike, how is it coming along? :atc:

niiiiiiicccce!!!!!.....i was askin Pete last night if had seen them yet or not. i been waitin to see them pop up, thought maybe you were gonna keep them until the regatta. lookin awesome man! love it!

lookin good!, i always liked the carbon fiber fender sets! if you are havin second thoughts about the blue, what about maybe wrapping the tank with a "carbon fiber" wrap to tie it in with the fenders, then go to black on the forks to tie them in with the frame maybe? after that, if you still want to match something to the seat, maybe get a set of 81 or 82 style decals? or maybe some 84 decals and get a little red in there, then throw a red pinstripe on the rims and bring it all together. it looks good now though! so think about it before you change it! nice work!

:atc: cant wait to see everybodies 70's this year, so many people have been "building/cleaning up" their toys! it should be a great time! lookin forward to meeting some new folks and checkin out the rides! 3 weeks from tonight, hangin out with good folks and listening the "swarm of bees" sound that comes from little bikes with big people on em testin out the track!..lol :atc:

+1 with jackster if you look in those pics their is a stack of them, dont know how old the pics are but they have quite the collection of.... O G Parts....

thanks mang!....yours is coming along sweeeet too! here is a little video from out front of the casa, i could have done it with a tape recorder since you cant see much, but you do catch a glimpse of a 450 lb guy riding a 100 lb bike haha!!!!!! so no land spped records being broke, but who cares its fun as hell! LOL!! regardless! its aliiive alivvve!! faat guy, on a litttte biiike

have seen both items, they are sweeeetnessss. deff. worth the coin!! nice stuff randizzlefoshizzle!!

:atc: rear hubs, wheels and tires arrived, punched the stock blaster 10mm studs out of the hubs and pressed in new 12mm studs so standard automotive style "acorn" lug nuts would work, mounted the wheels and fired it up to give it a test ride annnnnd...ran out of gas, damn!...oh well tomorows another day i suppose. front wheel and tire are on the way. i am draggin my feet on the plastics, not sure if i am ordering a full set or just the rear set. waiting for the front wheel/tire setup to get here so i can check for size and see if the front fender will still work before i order anything. :atc:

i just built a pipe , i wanted it to run under the bike so i cut apart the pipe that came with the motor, then i picked a chrome tip from vato-zone and ran the pipe into it under the bike. its not a show stopper but its workin. i still need to make a baffle for it though. i threw the old plastics and tires back on tonight and ran up and down the street a few times, everything is workin pretty good so far. just hurry up and wait for the pretty parts now.

Alright so, put the motor back in for (hopefully) the last time. Finally got all of the electrics installed and tested, installed the motor and tested the system out and all is a go!...so far! still waiting on fenders, hubs, wheels/tires, and seat cover. probably gonna grab a new set of bars, same ones just with less scratches..haha. other than that just some odds and ends and cosmetic stuff and it should shape up pretty decent!