Traditional hot rod style

bare bones

bare bones

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Here is my build I just finished. I wanted to give it that traditional hot rod feel. The first picture is of the bike when I bought it. The second is how it looks now. I am still not completely done with it. I want to take it to the Lone Star Round Up (a pre 1964 custom and hot rod show) and have someone pinstripe it!
 

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hi, that is a very tasteful build. i think a sportster tank would help. ive built a few of these bikes and have always felt the little peanut tank looks like fish guts smell. lata
 
stude13 said:
hi, that is a very tasteful build. i think a sportster tank would help. ive built a few of these bikes and have always felt the little peanut tank looks like fish guts smell. lata
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Thanks! I agree about the tank. I would love to put a small tank where the clam shell is by the top tube and the neck.
 
usflgkiller bike!!! looks alot like mine. diggin the banana seat, and the white walls.
 

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furament said:
so that there on the tube or under the tube is 2 pices? it will come off? its steel?
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Yep, the thing under the tube is kinda like a decorative filler piece. It is made of steel. It is two separate pieces and they clamp together held by two screws. To fit the peanut above I had to cut windows out of it to allow room. Here are some before and after pics from when I was making the windows. There really was no way to seal it up and make it a gas tank. I may try and find a shop that can make me a custom tank here in town at some point.
 

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na iwas kinda thinking owwww it hurts make it stop! if you could fit swall lawn mower oe wacker tank in between and use the shells to cover it but like i said cleen it looks good
 
furament said:
na iwas kinda thinking owwww it hurts make it stop! if you could fit swall lawn mower oe wacker tank in between and use the shells to cover it but like i said cleen it looks good
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Someday, I hope to get rid of the peanut all together and have a shop make me a custom tank that will basically be like the shells. As far as the shells go right now, there isn't even room for the CDI with the inner bracketing and all. I had the shells off at first (with the gas tank on) and I definitely like the bike better with them on-- peanut and all.
 
kamen said:
that looks great! what kind of muffler is that?
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Thanks! It is the sick bike parts expansion chamber in black (they also have a chrome one). The tan looking stuff is exhaust wrap. I put the wrap on mainly to give it a more old school look.
 
Thanks! The exhaust/muffler is the sick bike parts expansion chamber. I just mounted it in the up position and wrapped it.
 
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