Anyone ever seen some of these??

Post by **Suzsmokeyallan** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:46 am

Heres a set of gauges in blue for a 74-76 buffalo BUT the faces on this speedometer and tachometer are plastic and not aluminum plates printed as is most commonly found.
Notice the speedometer goes to a different colour marking at 80km/h and higher so what country were these originally designed for???
The faded orange sections used to be red years ago, and yes they can be refurbished.
On these faces the face plate is actually a green coloured plastic onto which blue has been sprayed to the face and white and red sprayed only to the raised markings.
When illuminated at night, light shines through the markings only, simply because the white and red areas are thinly sprayed, something the aluminum plate faces cannot do.
Now i know why the temperature gauge faces for these years of face had this feature carried over for a few years before they went to a printed aluminum plate design.

Post by **oldjapanesebikes** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:37 pm

Interesting .....

spike · Post by **spike** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:05 am

Allan,

I'd bet these are a set of japan-model GT…
These clocks have a limit for 80 kmh and are in kmh.
Strangely Japan are the only ones to have such a limit.

I have a Kawasaki Kr1 from japan and I seem to remember such a color difference on the clocks, but I am certain it has warning light when you go over 80! Very funny with that bike as it will do at the start of 2nd gear if you cane it a bit.

Post by **Suzsmokeyallan** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 7:33 am

Thanks for that info Spike, i was wondering about the country location and did see a set of that style but for a 72 show up on ebay a while ago, but those ones were located in Singapore.
So where do you think the bike and gauges in the picture are located???
South Africa.

Suzukidave · Post by **Suzukidave** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:08 am

Allan , i wonder if these type gauges were also on the " 2 piece head " engined bikes ?

Post by **oldjapanesebikes** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:03 am

Suzukidave wrote:Allan , i wonder if these type gauges were also on the " 2 piece head " engined bikes ?

Hmmm... and I thought the 2 piece head was only offered in '73 - obviously incorrect !

Were these just Japanese market bikes then ?

Suzukidave · Post by **Suzukidave** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:27 am

2 piece head info http://www.classicsuzuki.com/teknik/delad-topp/

Post by **oldjapanesebikes** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:37 am

Suzukidave wrote:2 piece head info http://www.classicsuzuki.com/teknik/delad-topp/

Thanks !

And I wonder what those police bike gauges look like (white housings to the right of the photo) .........

Suzukidave · Post by **Suzukidave** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:20 am

Here ya go Ian .. some GT750 Police bike info http://knkcycles.com/history-suzuki-Pol ... -GT750.htm

Post by **oldjapanesebikes** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:29 pm

Suzukidave wrote:Here ya go Ian .. some GT750 Police bike info http://knkcycles.com/history-suzuki-Pol ... -GT750.htm

Post by **Suzsmokeyallan** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:08 pm

What i can do is to email the owner of the bike from which the photo of the gauges was taken and ask for a head photo and the prefix of the engine number.

Post by **Suzsmokeyallan** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:59 am

Well the good news is that the numbers are here and its looking promising
Heres what the owner sent me.

VIN(frame) --GT 750B-1XXXX

ENGINE – GT 750-5XXXX

From this it appears to be one of those elusive domestic market models from Japan, but does it have the split head??
He will send a photo of the cylinder head as soon as he can to confirm this.

Joiseygirl · Post by **Joiseygirl** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:15 pm

After a couple of months as a member of this forum, I do beleive I'm finally learning to see the potential in some of the objects I would have classified as "junk" in the past. This set would be looking "brand new" if SOMEONE on this board got his hands on them.

Suzukidave · Post by **Suzukidave** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:12 am

Joiseygirl wrote:After a couple of months as a member of this forum, I do beleive I'm finally learning to see the potential in some of the objects I would have classified as "junk" in the past. This set would be looking "brand new" if SOMEONE on this board got his hands on them.

This post sure answers that question http://www.motorcycleracer.net/phpBB2/v ... php?t=2782

Joiseygirl · Post by **Joiseygirl** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:32 pm

This post sure answers that question http://www.motorcycleracer.net/phpBB2/v ... php?t=2782

For sure Dave.

Allan not only see's the potential, he also has the patience and the knowledge to bring life back into those old rusty gauges, which had they fallen into my hands would have been by the curb on Tuesday morning (trash collection day in my neighborhood)!

Sorry...what do I know...