My new project turd

Awesome!

[Sean88gt]

What kind of Yamaha dirtbike?

[ktm300hater]

I've put a couple hundred miles on in the last week. It needs some gears pretty badly. It's super tall. I stalled it pulling into yales driveway.


There's a carshow in hico in a couple weeks. I'm gonna take it down since everywhere I go in it, it draws people to it.

I'll start on the bodywork pretty soon. Plans are to paint it flat white with a flat black roof so that it still looks like old faded paint.

[ktm300hater]

Took it to the Bodyshop to get the frame pulled back straight. It was an inch and a half out square.

Next will be a fuel cell and fix the trunk floor, a 4 wheel alignment (it has adjustable rear control arms) and finish up the exhaust.

[razrbak]

Funny, thanks.

[ktm300hater]

I had a KTM 520 with the number 300 on it. I sold it to another guy who then started posting under ktm300racer. He was a buddy but a dipshit. I came up with ktm300hater to bust his balls. The screen name has stuck with me.

[razrbak]

Story behind screen name? My last bike was a '97 KTM300EXC, sold it and got out of the sport in '99- loved it, God I miss that bike.

[line-em-up]

Those photos take me back to the late 60's when, as a little boy, I would go next door to my neighbor's house and watch him work on cars and truck and try to help him. I probably drove him crazy with the million and one questions I asked him. He was a shadetree mechanic in the literal sense because he worked on his cars in the shade of his pine trees in his back yard. He always had Fairlaines, Galaxie 500's, F100's in his back yard in some state of repair. I think everytime I saw him, he was covered up to his elbows in oil. I guess the warning they put out about used motor oil causing cancer is true because he ended up dying from it.

Have fun with your project.

[jleews6]

I always liked these cars. I really like the 63 and a half and these cars. There is a 66 post car about a 1/2 mile from my house and its an old police car. Not a spec of rust and the old guy will not sell it. Its just sitting under a lean to.

[ktm300hater]

I like the cowl mounted fuel cell!

Custom piece and no need for a fuel pump. Just have to stop at every gas station on the way across town!!

[Josh@JKS]

I like the cowl mounted fuel cell!

[ktm300hater]

Wow, dude! Have you been on Dearborn Classics, yet? They do a lot of non-mustang Ford parts.

Ill check them out, thanks!!

[YALE]

Wow, dude! Have you been on Dearborn Classics, yet? They do a lot of non-mustang Ford parts.

EDIT: Here's the link. http://www.dearbornclassics.com/

[ktm300hater]

and a plus for a non-post car! always love that look

Ya that's part of the reason I like these cars, the other is since it was basically a one year only car, you rarely see one fixed back up

Love it. How much did you pay for it, if you don't mind me asking?

I paid 1000 for it, a little high, but it's actually in pretty decent shape and I got it from the original owner and I even got the original title from 1965

Badass! Finding something like that in a field and picking it up are few and far between nowadays to me. How are the floor pans?


Interesting trailer floor, we use that stuff at work on platforms but it's just for foot traffic.

The place that makes the stuff is here in Stephenville and a buddy works there and has a ton of that stuff stacked up at his house. It works awesome for trailer floors

They have a couple small spots about as big as a silver dollar that are rusty, but the trunk is pretty much gone because the guy I got it from left about 30 pounds of nails all over the trunk and once the nails started rusting, the trunk pan soon followed.

I dig it. Man, it's going to need a lot of body work.

It's really not as bad as it looks. The drivers side is pretty straight, the passenger rear quarter is kind of beat up.

[orphan Shelby]

Cool project car