My New Project

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red and green should never be seen.

anyone got a current picture of longshanks?

you looking James?

CLEM
 
Yes, I think they changed to tank badges, Paoli taps, Lafranconis and Marzocchis soon after the first few batches were made.
I think 2 or3 months after production started.
I'll try to keep it as period correct as I can, just not sure about resurrecting the CDI ignition or the weedy alternator.

Frame leaves this morning to get the usual head brace modification done before painting.
Otherwise it looks in decent condition with all the right lugs in all the right places, a bit of a rarity on wrecked Spanish Laverdas I have to say.
 
Grant said:
At least this one looks a better shade of green.

vjNhXCj by Grant Duguid, on Flickr
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I considered Green when I had the spare tank painted but there's so many shades it put me off for fear of getting it wrong. You see some great Green paint jobs but always hard to tell in pics but seems easy to be drab or over bright. Maybe that's just paintwork in general. Great if you get it right.
 
The 1978 1200 I raced for the West Australian agent was red had the black Laverda sticker on the tank (not the badge) - would have been the first batch to come into Oz. Can't tell the colour from this B&W pic.

 

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The frame has been reinforced at the headstock now.
Yesterday I pressure washed it to get rid of the gunge and noticed a lug for the front of the rear mudguards was cut off. So I cut one off the yellow bike frame and it's away to get welded tomorrow.
Once it's back I'll take it to get powder coated.
I just want it to be right so I can start hanging stuff off it without having to rip it down again for painting. At least all other brackets are present and correct.

Although this one will take quite a while to progress I want to work away at it as and when funds/time and enthusiasm permit.
 
Grant said:
The frame has been reinforced at the headstock now.
Yesterday I pressure washed it to get rid of the gunge and noticed a lug for the front of the rear mudguards was cut off. So I cut one off the yellow bike frame and it's away to get welded tomorrow.
Once it's back I'll take it to get powder coated.
I just want it to be right so I can start hanging stuff off it without having to rip it down again for painting. At least all other brackets are present and correct.

Although this one will take quite a while to progress I want to work away at it as and when funds/time and enthusiasm permit.
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Good plan! Will watch it grow ...
8)
 
That barrel is quite fixable. I had a Z1 head with most of the finning on one corner gone repaired. A local TIG welder built the fins up and trimmed them to match the other end. Once bead blasted, you couldn't pick it had been done.
I offered to supply sheet of the right thickness cut to shape - but he preferred to build the fins up with rod.
 
It's still a 1000 barrel at the end of the day.
I won't throw it out but I'd prefer a 1200 barrel for this project.
I might need a 1000 barrel in the future, hard to unrebore from 1200 to 1000...  :D
 
not totally skint Grant I hope, just the jockish effect with a bit of luck.
120 E's doesn't look too bad to me, although it does look an early block, if it were a 1200, and not on max o/s, I would snap it up.
CLEM
 
I will likely fit new liners anyway so max o/s does not faze me.
Skint as a very skint thing, but hoping for an upturn soon.
 
Yogi said:
Get them for the Club, Brett - that?s a good price..
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is an early small gasket barrel, not really worth the purchase and postage cost from Europe
 
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