This week I had Tuesday off work after having to work all weekend so I decided to see if I could make my 77 1000 LTD run since I have ignored it for the last year. Since I have to be nice and cordial to people 6 days a week, on my day off I don't really want to be bothered by people while I'm trying to work on these old bikes. After being interupted by two different sets of people who stopped to chat with me about bikes including one guy with a little peckerhead kid in bad need of ritalin (he was rolling around the grass in the yard while the old man bent my ear) I was getting kind of annoyed. Then a third guy shows up and he starts out by asking if I fix bikes. Im sitting on a milkcrate next to a bike, greasy hands holding a wrench and he asks me this. I fight off the urge to say something smart and find out he has 3 old bikes he wants rid of a 250 Honda, a GS750 Suzuki and a 900 Kaw that he says has been bored out to a 1000. So now I'm interested, I get his name and number and told him I'd call him this morning.
He only lives about a mile down the road so at 10:00 I drive down there. I look at the first 2 and really don't have any interest finally I get to look at the Kaw. It is sitting in what's left of a building that the guy is going to tear down the roof is collapsed walls are falling in. I climb over all this crap and get close enough to see it's a 76 KZ900 with a Zig-Zag man painted on the gas tank which is totally rusted away from the outside in. It has a chrome Kerker header, what looks to be a set of Andrews coils, a seat that is total garbage some aftermarket Drag Specialties guages, a square stock sissy bar and some trashy square dual headlights. I look it over as best I can after moving some crap off it and ask the guy how much he wants for it and he says not much. I talked some more and asked him again how much? Finally he tells me to make him an offer so I tell him $50.00 and he says ok it probably won't bring but $30 for scrap metal.
Now I have to wait for him to get a backhoe or some sort of machine so he can hook a chain to this thing to lift it out of the remains of this building. I think the engine is probably stuck but at some point in time somebody spent some money on this bike because all the engine covers have been chromed as well as the fork lowers. He also said he has a title for it and it does have both side covers along with the tail with the slide out tray. I'm not 100% sure how much of this is salvageable but for $50.00 how wrong can I be?