I came back from Mid-O with a 1978 DR370. It's a good running bike with a lot of painted rust, but the bones are all good. It'll need a bunch of work to make it pretty.
Here it is in it's current glory with a PE tank on it for now:
The bike came with a KE175 or something tank that was also rusted to shit. SP370 and DR370 tanks aren't easy to find, so it'll be quite a challenge to find one. I have a line on some dented tanks, which I intend to buy if the price is right. Through a day of searching, I wasn't finding a comfortable match. Then, after about 20 minutes of his own searching, Kanticoy pulls a horseshoe out of his ass and finds this tank:
It appears to be a desert tank that may just fit. I was reluctant to drop the cash, but it's yellow and the shape is rad, so I will do what it takes to make it fit. Here's a stock SP tank for reference. The DR was the same, but yellow or silver:
Here's the bottom of the plastic tank vs the stock SP/DR tank:
By measurements, I think this may be a tank made just for this frame.
Onwards and upwards...
Here it is in it's current glory with a PE tank on it for now:
The bike came with a KE175 or something tank that was also rusted to shit. SP370 and DR370 tanks aren't easy to find, so it'll be quite a challenge to find one. I have a line on some dented tanks, which I intend to buy if the price is right. Through a day of searching, I wasn't finding a comfortable match. Then, after about 20 minutes of his own searching, Kanticoy pulls a horseshoe out of his ass and finds this tank:
It appears to be a desert tank that may just fit. I was reluctant to drop the cash, but it's yellow and the shape is rad, so I will do what it takes to make it fit. Here's a stock SP tank for reference. The DR was the same, but yellow or silver:
Here's the bottom of the plastic tank vs the stock SP/DR tank:
By measurements, I think this may be a tank made just for this frame.
Onwards and upwards...
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