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Everybody needs a stunt bike right? Maybe we'll see you doing wheelies down the road while standing on the rear fender. Ahhhh the possibilities.........
He plans to bring the bike once completed back to Tank and let him have a look at it and possibly a ride. It will look a lot different at that point in an Old School Amen Savior frame.
Below is a pic of the Panhead at my sons shop once he got it cleaned up from years of sitting under a tarp. The second pic is the frame it will go in. The frame is on the lift with with a tranny, bottom end and oil tank basically as a display piece from his open house last week. He will start mocking it up next week with the Panhead engine, tranny etc..., complete any fabrication for the frame. Then get the frame stripped and painted while he starts the rebuild on the Pan engine/tranny
This is his last long chop built with a 74 Shovelhead that he pulled from a FLH. It is in a 73 Jammer Frame that was never built. The 74 FLH he found in Atlanta. The 73 Jammer Frame, seat, Girder front end, and Harley Invader wheels were all sourced from an old farmer in the MS Delta wh used to build choppers in the 1970s. The wheels and front end were still in plastic wrap when my son found them. The front end and Invader wheels on the Red frame above all came out of that same barn stash. He loaded down a 16ft trailer with 1970s era parts including 5 King and Queen seats, $ sets of Invaders and 4-5 long front ends
I remember they sold those frames back in the late 70's/early 80's. They called them, of all things, a Soft Tail frame. I had one briefly that I almost traded for a knuckle frame, but the guy backed out at the last minute. It wasn't too long after that that HD came out with their own bike using almost that identical name and I never saw those frames again. My guess is that they bought out the name and probably pretty cheapl
It's basically free and I am sure collectors of vintage bikes w ill make it worth the effort even how it sits. Had a 74 KZ 750 twin that was my first hw y bike. Rode the crap out of it and made money when I sold it.
I think the OP still came out on the good side, its a free bike. Would be a fun project to restore that old girl back to OEM condition. If interested here is some guys that can most likely help you with many of the OEM parts for it http://www.oldbikebarn.com/search-by...980/kz440a-ltd
Not sure what the price would be on a good restoration of that bike but that would have to be taken into account and compared to the cost of parts you will need to source. Another option is stripe it down and part it out on Ebay
Another good direction I see for that bike is to turn it into a bobber. Here is a pic of the same bike bobbed out
My Sons first ground up build a couple of years ago was a Bobber based around a late 70s Yami XS650 power train. He found the XS650, pulled the drive train and parted out the bike. Dropped the engine into a Voodoo Vintage frame and fabricated the rest.
Oh I am going to have fun with it. Started the abandoned vehicle possesory lien paperwork yesterday.
Here is what it looks like right now.
This is the basic shape I am going for. With some changes.
Going with round strut's, the flat ones look cool but, but flex side to side.
Planning to run 16"apes rather than drags, no gauges, just a head light and tail light.
Ditching the CV carbs, they will never run right with a pod and straight pipes, found a guy who makes gorgeous tig welded manifolds to run a single carb set up. I'm going to run a single Mikuni VM34.
Going metallic toxic green with the frame, black tank with the same toxic green paint inserts on the side of the tank and going to gold leaf "KZ440" on the side of the tank.
My kid has finally expressed some interest in riding so this will be his starter bike.
Oh I am going to have fun with it. Started the abandoned vehicle possesory lien paperwork yesterday.
Here is what it looks like right now.
This is the basic shape I am going for. With some changes.
Going with round strut's, the flat ones look cool but, but flex side to side.
Planning to run 16"apes rather than drags, no gauges, just a head light and tail light.
Ditching the CV carbs, they will never run right with a pod and straight pipes, found a guy who makes gorgeous tig welded manifolds to run a single carb set up. I'm going to run a single Mikuni VM34.
Going metallic toxic green with the frame, black tank with the same toxic green paint inserts on the side of the tank and going to gold leaf "KZ440" on the side of the tank.
My kid has finally expressed some interest in riding so this will be his starter bike.
Man that is going to be great. Good project for you and the kid
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