1983 Kawasaki KLT250

While I was at school about five years ago my friend Eddy introduced me to three-wheelers. You know those little fun little machines from the eighties? The ones someone found was more dangerous then expected and then they disappeared. Yep those are the ones.
So back to my lifetime, my friend Eddy has a number of three-wheelers, from Honda to Kawasaki he has them. He would take me out riding and I really have grown a affinity towards them.

   These are some of Eddy's Machines

This fall I found and got one of my own. This thing was a real pile. The previous owner had it sitting out in the parking lot for a couple of years and let whatever happen to it happen. The wiring was a rats nest, all of the plastic pieces were missing, the seat had no cover left and it was just wore out.

Since then, while I was at school I got a new wiring harness and pretty well started over with it. I ended up replacing almost everything. The voltage regulator, starter, fuel pump, starter relay, and thumb switch. I got all new except the switches, which have gone out since they have been put in.



Eddy ended up getting me a set of fenders off of one of his old machines. I started to get it together and make it look like some semblance of what it should look like.



In this last picture I was testing colors on it to decide the color scheme. I have decided to go with the blue and black instead of the original red, black, and gold colors. Gold (bling, bling) was so weird and out of place on it, so for sure that is going away. I had it running and kind of driving by that point. It would run and drive for a few days and then something would come up and it would take me two weeks to fix it. So when I got home to Oregon with it I tore it apart to rebuild the whole thing. That carnage to come later.

Summer of 2015 update

It has been a while I know. I have been back a year and look, no updates. I know I cannot believe myself either. This last year a lot has happened. I will break it up and put more specific project posts later.









 Last summer when I got home I still had my 1993 Ford Diesel truck, my dad still had his 1970 Mustang and I still had my 1963 Ford Ranchero.

So for the time leading up to my mission I tried to sell the diesel truck with no avail. Last summer I put it back up for sale. Instead of selling it I took this 2000 Subaru Legacy GT in on trade. I was happy, I had something I could afford to drive to school that was pretty efficient and was reliable.  I have done some work to it, I will put more up on it later.






The Mustang was sold to a friend of my parents down in Arizona. We ended up driving it all the way down from Oregon to southwest Arizona. It was a fun trip, we did find out how empty it is in between some places in Utah and Arizona. We made it down fine and the car ran great till about three or four hours from where we were going. It ended up being something as small as needing new spark plugs. As a side note, I saw it earlier this summer when I went to go visit. The new owner is doing a lot of body work to get it back in better shape.

While we were down in Arizona my grandpa gave me one of his trucks. It is a really nice 1972 Chevy C/20. Yep your thinking it right, it is a lot like the green one we had before. So the problem with this one is it had not been running for eight years and hadn't been on the road for even longer. We didn't get it ready to come all the way back to Oregon in the few days we had while we were there, but we got a few things done on it.

When I went back to school in the fall I had the Subaru with me as my daily driver in Idaho, my Ranchero in Oregon, and the C/20 in Arizona. The joke was that I was never going to get all three in the same place at the same time.

This is all for this post, I will be putting more posts up with more specifics on some of these projects.

 

Last one from me for two years.

I am preparing for a mission for my church. I am going to be gone for two years. I just finished packing all my stuff away and moved it all into the shop. I mean everything, including my car. I cleaned up 'Cali' and covered her. Well I will be on in a few years and write up some more car related posts.

1979 Ford Bronco

1979 Ford Bronco.
Its my new project, here are a few pictures.

First few pictures, when we first got it

 

 Grill Swap to a 1973 grill

 

 

 

Bucket seat to bench seat and rear seat

 Second and third set of rims and tires

June 7th

I Know it has been awhile but here we go, I will do a quick recap on all the projects.

The Ranchero:
Now I am back in Oregon I can work on it. I have painted some stripes and pinstriping on it. It is a little behind on maintenance, so it is gonna get that all in the next few days. It's got drop blocks in the back to level it out.

The Chevy:
It has been sold. I loved that truck but it was hard watching it rust away because we had no time to do work on it. It went to a great guy that will give it the care it needs.

The Nissan:
This is even surprising me that I will write about it. For those of you that know me, you should know how I feel about things of that era and imported. For those of you that don't know what I mean, I don't care for imports or cars any from the mid to late eighties. But I had this crazy picture for you all so I had to share it. Once we sold the chevy we had to move a trailer and so we just towed it with the Nissan, and it pulled it great.

Those are the projects right now, hopefully I will be updating it again soon.

Rexburg
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