Subject: RE: Project poll
Author: brian c
Date: Feb 10, 2005, 10:18 AM
Post ID: 1718368428
Hey Pat, don't know if you will remember this, but my first guzzi
purchase ever (about 17 years ago) was through you when you were the
norcal rep. It was a 1971 Ambo that had been done up in chocolate brown
metalflake paint and Cadillac emblems had been epoxied all over the
sheetmetal and large windjammer fairing and trailer (yep). Oh man. It
even had a custom made 'hubcap' for the front wheel with cadddie emblem.
I did strip it down. Funny thing is that I sold it after owning it for
about 5 years to a guy that took it comepletely apart. 10 years after
that I ended up buying it back when it came up in a local ad- but I had
no idea it was my old bike until I went to look at it and recognized the
guy (and the bike).
Patrick Hayes wrote:
jtomel-@netscape.com wrote:
When Jerry Kimberlin and I restored the motor on my '46 Guzzi SuperAlce, we discovered that, although it was running, it had been stored outdoors uncovered for a very long time. The motor had filled with water at some time in its previous life. all of my gears, crankshaft, and pushrods have a very clear "high tide line" where the water surface has its greatest corrosive effect. Still runs just great today. Just need a piston, boring, a few bushings, and off we go. Patrick Hayes Fremont CA |
Berkeley, CA
'72 Eldo
'74 850-T