The re-birth of a GS160 MkII

[1965mod]

Hi everyone,
OK, first things first, if I've broken any rules with my sig pic being too big, my scoot is the wrong colour or anything else then let me know because the only rule I found was the size of the avitor.

Anyway, I've just found this site and thought that I'd join up and post what I've been doing. Being an old git of 57 and wanting to relive my youth I went about looking for a basket case of a scoot to do up over the winter and found this GS160, it was in bits with a lot of stuff missing or in need of replacement, some kind soul had cut all the wiring loom and left just the bit from the horn to just where it exits at the bottom of the frame near the exhaust - about 2-3 feet - nice!

I want to rebuild it in the style I remember when I was a MOD in 1965 (I was 16 then ) It's not supposed to be a Quadraphenia rip off or a anything else off - just memories I have.

Last weekend I had no excuse to start her up, I had a spark and compression, all I had to do was put some oil in the gearbox, add some fuel and oil and kick it over - so I did and guess what - it started ;D OK, not the first couple of kicks as I hadn't primed it and it seemed to take forever to get the fuel to the carb but start she did and it sounded good.

The plan is to competely build it up with everything on, mirrors, racks, floor strips etc until I'm happy with it then I shall take it all apart and give it to someone to restore the frame and all the metal work, I am going to get everything re-chromed (even the new stuff) and I shall rebuild the engine while the bodywork is away. This should start about November/December time if all goes to plan (so thats about June then )

When the body comes back fully restored and painted I will then reassemble it all ready for the Spring/Summer 2007.

In your opinions, who would be a good bet to get the body restored by, being very new to this then any help would be much appreciated.

I'll be popping in with new pics as and when I take anything I think will be of interest to you.

Cheers, Graham

[Lucia]

Hi Graham, glad you found the site - looking forward to seeing the work in progress - hopefully some of our forum members can give you a helping a hand

[Feed Your Head]

looking forward to seeing the results...hopefully see you at a rally or two.

[1965mod]

Thanks for the replies Lucia and mod1969, I've got some more goodies coming this week and will hopefully fit them over the weekend so I shall post with a new sig pic once they are fitted.

Cheers, Graham

[bryno]

That does look be great to see some more pics....

[Smallframe]

looks fine to me - why take it apart

[1965mod]

Just another quick shot with front crashbars, double legsheild trims, glove box and a few mirrors added plus a few other bits.


Smallframe, it doesn't need taking apart. I could ride it as it is but I want this better than what it is now. I don't want to do this all over again at a later stage - just my way of doing things I guess

Graham

[1965mod]

Well I'm not too far off now, a different front rack that now fits properly and a few lights plus a couple of other things. I think about another two weeks to complete the dry build, I've still got the speedo and speedo cable plus the trims on the side bubbles and front mud guard and also a couple of the floor runners to sort out but apart from that it's almost done.

[darkslider]

Are you keeping it white? It looks stunning by the way. But can we have a picture from front and rear. I think blue chroming is the heavier duty chroming and will last years. A lot of these new accessories are very thinly chromed. Keep up the good work. Ian

[1965mod]

Hi Ian, thanks for the kind words - much appreciated. I hope the two pics below give you some idea of the front and the rear of the scoot.


I agree with you on the chrome - its crap ;D

I will be getting all the chrome re-chromed at The London Chroming Company plus other bits which arn't chromed as yet, I was a bit worried about getting the red gems off but I've found a neat little way of doing it but it takes a little care.

I was going to have it sprayed a dark metalic silver but I'm really coming round to keeping it the original off white it is now - it's growing on me a lot.

Graham