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    Just like Eddie's

    A very special racer for the chosen few

    Oh to know where one of these would be now or if any of the 30 survived!
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    [QUOTE=T.W.R A very special racer for the chosen few

    Oh to know where one of these would be now or if any of the 30 survived![/QUOTE]

    It seems to be widely accepted that kawasaki only built/sold 21 or 22 of them. The balance of the 30 sets of parts probably went into the spares bins. One sold on ebay recently for around $US102,000.00.....with a load of unobtainable spares too...

    There was quite a lot of talk on US forums at the time. One guy posted a list of serial numbers and said that with the ebay one surfacing, 17 were now accounted for.

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    $102k US not a bad return on $11k purchase price

    so 22/30 assembled and 17 accounted for, wonder where the rest are stashed?

    Wouldn't be that difficult to build a replica up to those specs though

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    Quote Originally Posted by T.W.R View Post
    $102k US not a bad return on $11k purchase price

    so 22/30 assembled and 17 accounted for, wonder where the rest are stashed?

    Wouldn't be that difficult to build a replica up to those specs though
    Apparently the hardest bits to find are the discs and calipers - and the one on ebay had a full spare set...

    The ebay one was pretty typical history. Bought by a dealer, he ran it once at an AMA National with his rider on then it went into his collection. Bought some years later by the ebay vendor who kept it in his lounge....Bet you most are in lounges.....

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    check out the zrx owners association or club (www.zrxoa.org or www.zrxoc.org )

    I own a/the replica version, a zrx1100 - from about 96 through to now they still make em.. (although the 2007 onwards model - DAEG - is only available in japan/malaysia). Rumour has it that momma kwaka is going to make a new model based on the zx14. SO it will be a lawson replica, naked superbike.
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