new member - old flat tracker restoration

rice_cycle · Post by **rice_cycle** » Sat May 16, 2015 12:24 pm

Ol' Gramps has had an older CL77 upstairs at our dealership for a lot of years and got the wild hare to get it up and running.

Gonna need a lot of work and parts, but look forward to this forum for info and help!

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Sat May 16, 2015 1:45 pm

Welcome to the forum!

That looks a pretty tasty project. Are you gong to keep it as a tracker?

G

rice_cycle · Post by **rice_cycle** » Thu May 21, 2015 11:36 am

it's a tough decision - kinda want to do a tasteful combination of a cafe/flat tracker so we will see. it's hard since when you search what people have done on some of these, i want them all!

will post once I get something figured out.

cheers

Hamamatsu Nippon · Post by **Hamamatsu Nippon** » Thu May 21, 2015 12:05 pm

I really like this CL the way it is. It's a genuine period correct flat tracker. It's got the popular Goodyear dirt racing tires; tube foam filters, wide bars, modified exhaust, and stripped electrics with just a bar mounted cut off switch. If people don't preserve racing heritage, it disappears. This is not a clone, it's genuine.
How nice is it to see those old board track racers from the teens and twenty's? And how valuable are they now? Why don't you clean it up, detail it, and take a long look at what you have. Then decide if you want to change it.

deafanddiabetic · Post by **deafanddiabetic** » Thu May 21, 2015 12:17 pm

I'm with Hamamatsu on this one.

I love a custom build, I did one with a CA72, but that's because there's thousands of them out in the world and if I wanted one I could buy one today.

Realistically, you could sell that period correct one to a real collector for a good chunk of change and then buy another scrambler to turn into whatever custom creation that you'd like. And probably have plenty of money left over for new parts, etc.