Thunderbird Coming Along

[dbowl]

Really like how this is turning out.

 

[OND]

Coming Along Nicely :thumbsup: I Like It !

 

[jdogg]

Looking really sweet!! Nice skateboard seat pan!! I gotta find me an old board for a project! :thumbsup:

 

[dbowl]

Looking really sweet!! Nice skateboard seat pan!! I gotta find me an old board for a project! :thumbsup:

I love to re-purpose. The board gives it the look I wanted and is actually not all that bad on the butt. Motor came off a $20.00 1 year old edger someone let get gunked up. Runs great now. Just hope it's enough to push it.

 

[OND]

Good Luck, and keep us posted. You've got a really nice ride there and I would like to see it when its finished.

 

[vintage_toys]

Nice looking bike. Didnt the thunderbird come with two different style handlebars? Im just wondering if that style is from the early or late 70s. I have a thunderbird but its the other style bars. I didnt start rebuilding it yet though.

 

[buckeye]

Very nice.

 

[mrpat]

Nice looking bike. Didnt the thunderbird come with two different style handlebars? Im just wondering if that style is from the early or late 70s. I have a thunderbird but its the other style bars. I didnt start rebuilding it yet though.

The tall bars were on a bird nighthawk. The bars on Dbowl's bike is a bird thunderbird.

 

[markus]

with those handlebar clamps and the chrome wheels its was an earlier version, Bird called them "spoker"

and they were also sold through sears as the I think first version "fielder"

Dbowl, I got a thunderbird in a parts buy awhile back and threw a little briggs like that on it to just sell for $100 it did Go, but it didn't like it!!!!! :laugh: I like the deck seat too :thumbsup:

 

[dbowl]

I suppose I can put the predator 212 on that I have if this is not enough motor. I generally just putt around anyway.

 

[OND]

I would try the Briggs first and see how it pulls you . JMO .. It looks good on there !

 

[dbowl]

yeah, i don't really care for the way a predator looks with everything removed in order for it to fit. I might use it on my scat cat if I don't end up trying to hang a sachs in it.

 

[dbowl]

Rode it tonight with the briggs. Not bad at all for what I do. Now to work up a brake. Scrub brake was missing when I traded for it.

 

[dbowl]

Got my brake set up today. Used disc brake set-up on the sprocket. Lever is off of a Katana Motorcycle. Works great.