New Bobber

Brittney and I went to Sturgis to pick up our new bobber. It was bobbed in 1955 or 56 in southern LA California We can trace the bike back forty years and it has not run in that time.
The bike is mainly 38 parts with a few updated pieces. Check out the cool paint job on the late 38 oil tank.
The exhaust is so neat on this bike. I will try to make a similar one for the right side. IT has an awesome aluminum plate to cover the dash cut out.
The clutch pedal is lee styled before lee was around. It is a 45" pedal that is brazed to a normal big twin section.
My heart skipped a beat when we pulled the battery top off and saw the original 47 to late 50s battery. This is so cool!
Early quick throttle
check out the right peg. IT is just the foot board mount with some tape wrapped around it.

what a cool front fender and classy spacers.
the front cylinder has a 42 and later air cooled plug in it and the rear cylinder just had some wadded up tissue in it. Check out the cool spark plug wires.
The bike sat on a cart with the wheels off of it forever. The tail lights are super neat as well. I would love to pin down some history on this bike.

I got an early 38 frame back from sandblasting and saw some things that I didn't like. This is the right down tube, somebody over tightened the crash bar u bolts and crimped the tube.


HEre is one of the bottom rails



and the other side. This thing was a little beat up, too beat up for my liking, so I cut it up to replace some tubes.




Here it is, the neck casting is sorted out, as is the lower motor mount and bottom gas tank mount. I have to clean out the sidecar loops and then it will be ready to go back together. This will make a good repair!

Check out the squashed bird! I cast these up a year ago, and this is the first one that I put on a bike. It took a couple hours to fit it to the fender, but it turned out really well, and Tim didn't have to pay 800 dollars for an original one.


Here are all the parts that make up a 38 front end.



Here it is assembled. This is a one year only fork. It has grease zercs on the outside of the perches and a square broached through the fork stem for the steering dampener anchor pin. I should have a roller tomorrow