Last year i couldn't help myself and bought a Buy it now on evilbay, a Tracy body for a CB750, I have liked them always and wanted one for a while, and then this poped up for $99.00,
I had it shipped over to Australia and took delivery of it last week, But its different from all the others i have seen, AS it has a longer twin seat, like a two piece tank and seat unit i have seen on the net, It has a black and white buisness card laminated into the resin, Saying The Fiberglass Works Santa Cruz Ca. So i am trying to find out some history and learn a time line on the goings on from the now gone Santa Cruz Calif. company The Fiberglass Works.
I think they made the first bodies for Triumph flat trackers like this
The Blue body is for a Triumph twin and it has the color fiberglass works card in the gas tank,
I believe many of these bodys were sold with custom Paint jobs by Tracy Nielson, or painted by Tracy and friends.
And i believe the bodys were renamed to TRACY there seems to be two main types of bodies.
Like these, but i have come across some with other variations.
The first type with the Cobra type tapered seat with the bulges over the top of the rear shocks.
Then there is the more common type body with the Tracy logo and the parallel seat and the cut aways over the top of the rear shocks.
Here are some old ads for Tracy
And here is another type with what appears to be a bigger tank?
But i can not find another like the one i bought any clues? I also have a fiberglass one piece seat tank cover body that covers the original CB750 gas tank, does anybody have the time and knowledge to explain when and how this great body came about and was it before or after the iconic Triumph Hurricane from the early seventies by Craig Vetter, and other catalogue pics from the day, with the different types available. Thanks, Tom
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