Triumph Thunderbird Project

[Voltaire]

I'm moving house soon and I'm over carting projects around.
Was saving this till I retire but the way things are going that might be 20 years away....
So join the 84 penniless watchers on TM :rolleyes:
according to the guy at the Vintage Car Club who do motorcycle Vinning , it should not be an issue getting it registered.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=629929627

[Kickaha]

I'm moving house soon
Are you getting a bigger garage?

[Voltaire]

Are you getting a bigger garage?

This is Auckland we're talking about, if its big enough to put a garage on its called " landbanking" or " may be sub dividable "

there are no garages now, just " sleepouts" so 3 families can chip in and buy a house.

[Paul in NZ]

Ha - is that yours? Its got some potential and priced reasonably... Should sell easy I'd of thought.

Whats up with the crankcases? Have they been chromed or something???

[Voltaire]

yes, they went chrome mad.
It has got a lot of potential, all the hard to find bits have been found and you can get all the trim parts from the UK.
Like my Brando pic?:msn-wink:

[Motu]

The SU carb is pretty rare - I searched for years but never found a complete one, lots of parts, but not enough to build one up. I used to use the manifold, and slot the flange of an HS2 off a Mini or other BMC. Got to have that hole in the seat tube for an SU. That looks like a competition mag too with the red screw on pickups - standard mag has black pickups held on by a spring blade.

[Voltaire]

The SU carb is pretty rare - I searched for years but never found a complete one, lots of parts, but not enough to build one up. I used to use the manifold, and slot the flange of an HS2 off a Mini or other BMC. Got to have that hole in the seat tube for an SU. That looks like a competition mag too with the red screw on pickups - standard mag has black pickups held on by a spring blade.

I was at a swap meet and picked it up, another guy " Banana Box' man said " do you know that is" "yup".....

I knew because I bought a car one and found they are not the same.

has hold in frame, mag is chromed so should go fast.

94 watchers.

[Motu]

I had a body, a dashpot, a piston and float chamber...almost enough, but it's all the other stuff that's needed to make a carb.

[Voltaire]

Looks like its sold, to the guy who rang me.:2thumbsup
Looks like I'll never experience the superior handling of the sprung hub and flexi Triumph forks....