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Had this bike for a few years now, originally bought it to fix another SR I had that needed spares.

First piccie shows bike as I am starting with it, started a while back with cleaning uo the tank and prepping it for paint, but moved around a bit so the bike stood on one side for a few years.

Second piccie shows my perfectly sealed and airtight spray booth

Was hoping to spray primer but found that after a few months of standing my hardener had gone … hard.

3rd piccie, so just to stop the tank rusting again, I decided to use some old paint. By old I mean probably as old as me, got this paint from my uncle a few years ack and sprayed an XJ 650 the blue. Colours name is Ford Jewel Blue. You can’t make it out but the label is actuially printed in Afrikaans, whan was the last time you saw that??

In 4th piccie are the 3 fibreglass items I copied from the other SR I had, the side covers are my best achievement I think. The sprocket cover was made cos the bike did not have one and I was feeling adventurous with the fibreglass. It’s still quite rough so will be working on it for a while yet

5th photo shows the tank spayed and hopefully sealed against rust (on the outside) for a while.

6. My little quality inspector checking the finish.

7. Tank and panels on the bike, as you can see plenty of work to be done! Seat is again a fibreglass copy of the other SR’s seat base. Was covered but the upholsteres put the foam on the wrong way!

8. Piccie with the home made fibreglass sprocket cover, coil needs to be rewound, cos no spark.

Lastly. Hoping to end up with something along these lines, at least the tank and tail piece!

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