I got into it after work, poking around the easy to get to parts. It looks like someone welded a piece of diamond plate over the tire as a repair. Welds look okay, and its kinda Mad Max.
From there we see a very rusty battery box, which is why the battery is in the air box. The frame has a lot of small scratches and rust spots I think I can fix it.
Next we see under the points cover, very nice. Did not expect it to be so shiny inside. The alternator cover has hex bolts installed, I am pleased.
Now there is the rust you would expect from a 35 year old bike. I see a trip to the sandblaster it my future.
This is my tank... yeah, it is that ugly. The picture shows a dent that looks ripe for expanding into a knee dent. I scraped the paint on the other side. Looks like the tank was black, painted with latex brown house paint and then rattle canned a silver color.
The PO also installed some cheap pod filters that I do not like. Sunday I get down to the real work of cleaning those carbs out and stripping the tank. I drained the old gas out of it today, it was brown. Hope to get the worst rusted parts off Sunday and to the sandblaster Monday.
