Niehart
Pie Smuggler
Just thought I would post a few pictures and a little history on this Norton that Jim is restoring.
My Norton has been setting in a garage in Northern Montana [Hinsdale] for a long time.
Panman [Kevin], JimmyJimmy [Jim] and I stopped and checked it out on the way to Big john's Spearfish event.
My brother was moving so the bike and saddle had to be picked up. Kevin and I made a quick trip to Montana to pickup the Norton. I lost the saddle and picked up a 1984 HD xR1000. Seemed like a good deal to me. Here are the bike before Kevin and I spent lots of money at a car wash.
I needed a little cash to pay for the trip and fix the Harley and Jim wanted the Norton so a deal was made. Jim already has a garage full of bike, some that he has restored, and I wasn't sure how Jim was going to slide this idea by his SO.
But as luck would have it, Julie's madden name was Norton so it was, "Honey, I'm buying the bike because it has your name". Smart man that Jim is.
So the bike was 90% complete and after little/lot of work it ran.
But Jim is one of those fellows that likes things perfect so the journey began. Hours and hours of research on the net and more hours of cleaning, repairing and just stuff. His SO was not to happy with the price of the tank badges and that was just the start. But they remodeled the kitchen, you might have noticed all the boxes in one of the pictures above, in the middle all of this so she was cool with it.
Of course you have to build a engine stand to display the engine while you are working on it. I'm not really sure how many hours and how many dollars went into making this engine look this good. But wait, maybe I [Jim] need to rebuild the top end before I install it in the bike.
Just damn it, time to order another set of rings.
Alright, now it's time to sand blast and power coat the frame. Damn!
No problem, Jim has welder. He practiced on a Honda 750 frame that had the same problem.
Guess he also decided to have the valves and seat done in the engine. The engine is now complete.
And so is the frame.
I like the new old style shocks.
Time to set the engine back into the frame.
And the gear box.
And the saga continues.
My Norton has been setting in a garage in Northern Montana [Hinsdale] for a long time.
Panman [Kevin], JimmyJimmy [Jim] and I stopped and checked it out on the way to Big john's Spearfish event.
My brother was moving so the bike and saddle had to be picked up. Kevin and I made a quick trip to Montana to pickup the Norton. I lost the saddle and picked up a 1984 HD xR1000. Seemed like a good deal to me. Here are the bike before Kevin and I spent lots of money at a car wash.
I needed a little cash to pay for the trip and fix the Harley and Jim wanted the Norton so a deal was made. Jim already has a garage full of bike, some that he has restored, and I wasn't sure how Jim was going to slide this idea by his SO.
But as luck would have it, Julie's madden name was Norton so it was, "Honey, I'm buying the bike because it has your name". Smart man that Jim is.
So the bike was 90% complete and after little/lot of work it ran.
But Jim is one of those fellows that likes things perfect so the journey began. Hours and hours of research on the net and more hours of cleaning, repairing and just stuff. His SO was not to happy with the price of the tank badges and that was just the start. But they remodeled the kitchen, you might have noticed all the boxes in one of the pictures above, in the middle all of this so she was cool with it.
Of course you have to build a engine stand to display the engine while you are working on it. I'm not really sure how many hours and how many dollars went into making this engine look this good. But wait, maybe I [Jim] need to rebuild the top end before I install it in the bike.
Just damn it, time to order another set of rings.
Alright, now it's time to sand blast and power coat the frame. Damn!
No problem, Jim has welder. He practiced on a Honda 750 frame that had the same problem.
Guess he also decided to have the valves and seat done in the engine. The engine is now complete.
And so is the frame.
I like the new old style shocks.
Time to set the engine back into the frame.
And the gear box.
And the saga continues.
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