The Pick-up

I am always looking for a project, always with an engine, but mostly to occupy my time. The classifieds here in Utah are very active and it is very easy to find a treasure. I have found the best time of year to find those projects is in the spring. This usually happens when the snow melts enough for someone's wife to make it to the side of the house and find his treasure trove (bone yard) over-flowing to where the neighbors can see it.   I saw these two Super Trykes in the classifieds a couple months ago but had other projects going on and so I let the opportunity go by. I got the garage emptied out of projects and up jumped the same Trykes but in the trade or barter section. I had an old Moto4 225 without a title that was sitting in my bone yard and proposed the trade. After a few questions a pick up time was scheduled.  The next day I picked up Mitch from school and we made the two hour drive to pick them up. We arrived at the guy's house and out the front door came James, all 5'6", 123 pounds of him. I couldn't help noticing the smoke trail following him like his unwashed red hair was about ready to combust at any second. I was a little relieved when he stretched his hand out and the smell of the most pungent cannabis caught up with him and engulfed us both. He took us around the back of his double wide Fleetwood and showed us the trikes. It had taken me two hours on Google to figure out the brand on these 1970's super stars. I was glad to see that both trikes were fairly complete and both engines spun freely.
We traded bills of sale and loaded the three wheeled beauty queens on my trailer. Night was settling in on us and the drive home was fairly quite. We stopped in Scipio to get gas and Mitch gave a stray dog the rest of our travel jerky. I have to admit there was a little excitement building up inside thinking of the rebuild. "Under the milky way" was playing on the radio and Mitch and I talked about what any two 12 year-olds would talk about. Go Karts, motor-cycles, and trips we were going to take during the summer.

Briggs 10 HP flathead!

Dual disk brakes!

What is that?

"It looks like a tardcycle". I know whenever I get that type of reaction out of my wife I have found a good project. Picking a good build project is like going to an art museum. What will make someone want to puke will make the next guy giddy. That's how I feel about 1970 OHV's. These were the glory days of invention and fun when it came to the motorized world.  Bikes made by Bultaco, and Hodaka were all the rage. The only ATV with four wheels was amphibious or had training wheels on it.
From the back of magazines you could buy kits and plans to build anything. From go karts to modular homes, anything could be bought and assembled. It is from the back of magazines the Carl Heald inc sold the Super Tryke.