Slight fuel tank leak

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/170635979542

 

That's quite impressive. It looks like a 20 year old bike with a 150
year old tank & mudguard. But 205 quid? Srsly?

 

Look at the stuff that's still on it and, presumably, recoverable.
Radiator. Clocks. Seat. Rack (very hard to find for many SOBs).
Possibly the engine. Side panels. badges....

The tank is amazing, though. Wonder how it got to that stage....

 

You've really must have a damp climate.

SQ

 

Someone filled it with E10.

 

It's almost worth buying just for the fun you could have sending photos
to POR-15 complaining about their tank sealer not working.

 

Thus spake The Older Gentleman () unto the assembled multitudes:

Coo, I've never seen a GT750 skellington before.

 

heh.

 

I can't see a filler cap and the top of the tank is, err, still sort
of fuel-tank shaped.

 

That seriously made me snigger.

"could be used for spare parts" Ye gods, more like "could be used as a
boat anchor"

 

"Has been used as a boat anchor" shurely.

 

Closer examination revelas it's a B model, one of the last they made,
and so highly desirable in the eyes of the Kettle-isti. Well, not *this*
one, obviously, but things like the side panels might be.

I do love the last bits of blue paint desperately clinging to the ruins
of what was once a fuel tank.

 

"The Older Gentleman" wrote in message

Closer examination revelas it's a B model, one of the last they made,
and so highly desirable in the eyes of the Kettle-isti. Well, not *this*
one, obviously, but things like the side panels might be.

I do love the last bits of blue paint desperately clinging to the ruins
of what was once a fuel tank.


Depends, on what you do with it... B models are a PITA for some spares like
the clocks which are brown faced, some parts like the indicators I believe
are the same as the GS750.

Looking at it assuming these parts are salvageable at a glance you could
flog....

Radiator crash bar
Engine
Seat (chrome band) hard to get I assume the base is long departed
Frame and swinging arm with V5??
Radiator and plastic surround
The rack is pattern and a NOS "sports rack" is about £120 new but that rack
will sell OK
"B"Clocks
Stands
"B" rear light assembly
"B" fork ears.
Side panels are the same as far as I am aware but they only came in black on
the B

If the engine casings aren't buggered completely and it all splits apart
intact (looks like a puff of compressed air may reduce it to dust) you will
get £250 back easily breaking it.
Be interesting to see what it reaches.

I wouldn't touch it and I have built 4

Ras
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Says enough about it.

 

It's on £370 now.....

 

At least it won't be hard to find the source of the leak...

 

worth a look

those things were 2 stroke, kik like a mule, i once saw a guy in ardersier scotland, rebuild one from 3 choped hardtails, i think the tank was stripped of paint ready for respay but leaftas bare metal, but check out the chome on the forks, 18000 grit wet n dry to remove the pits lol

 

That's quite impressive. It looks like a 20 year old bike with a 150
year old tank & mudguard. But 205 quid? Srsly?