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My $500 Honda 350 Scrambler Restoration
Back in June I purchased the Scrambler from a guy for $500. It was in sad shape and only ran on one cylinder. However, all the parts were there, including the hard to find/expensive exhaust. I took it home with the plan to use as many used parts as I could to fix it up for a nice about town/forest road bike. Fortunately 98% of the parts are readily available both new and used and are fairly inexpensive. For example a new seat cover set me back all of $64.00; used gauges off of ebay: $34.00 shipped! I never planned for this to be a concourse restoration, but just a nice 5 footer. Total investment is $1200.00 (including purchase price). Here's the before:
Home on the trailer:  Yes it really has been sitting around since 1993!  The bike spent most of its life in Arizona and it shows:   No idea what happened to the gauges. Neither of them worked and had to be replaced. Wrong handle bars too.  This was a fun bike to work on. Nothing insurmountable. All work done by yours truly. By the way that paint job was done with off the shelf Acura paint color spray bomb! Total cost about $20.00!    
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Looks great! That reminded me of my Honda experience starting with Honda Trail 70 > Honda XL100 > Honda CB750F.
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Nice, Kurt! How's she run?
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That's awesome. Love the older bikes
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Awesome looking bike!
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I think I like the looks of this more than that fancy new Duc! And cheaper too!
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*Insert fingers in ears*
LALALALA I'm not listening! You guys are a bad influence!!!!! I do not have time for a bike right now! |
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Awesome work.
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Nice.
Makes me regret selling my '75 CB550. But man, was that thing s l o w.
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Very nice! - that part(s) I dig are: great find, rough but all there. You did everything yourself including paint (which passes for OE quality and colors in the picture) and you did it all yourself..............did I mention that already?
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That really turned out nice.
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Looks great.
I had a '76 Honda 400 Super Sport back in the day. ( the late 80's early 90's ) Nice bikes.
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I had a scrambler like that (silver) in college and I'm constantly looking for a deal like that. Love that bike.
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Looks great Kurt, I learned to ride on a green one in '72.
Any chance it will be near Potosi the weekend of the 10th? Jim
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1985 Porsche Carrera
1986 Porsche 944 2.5l
Sinister Dove
Gemini Boomerang
Porsche 996 Turbo Convertible
996 Turbo
My former car
the stable a few years ago
2013 
