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GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:17 pm
by buzzer
I will have a good tank and a headlight off a 1976 GT500 which I am going to sell on Ebay. Are they the same as any other models so I can list it correctly?
Thanks Guys
Re: GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:59 pm
by karl pa
The GT500 tank is specific to the 500,it will fit the GT750 but does not have radiator cap cover.The GT500 and later GT250s use the same headlight.
Re: GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 6:18 pm
by joolstacho
Splitting hairs, but GT500A had a chrome headlight shell and the final GT500B had a black painted shell.
Re: GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:17 am
by rngdng
It's also very different from earlier T500s.......
Lane
Re: GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:36 am
by GT750Battleship
Shame Suzuki never kept the "horse shoe" headlight idea going
Cheers,
Roger
Re: GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:34 am
by jabcb
By modern standards, those old 35/25W headlights are best considered daytime running lights.
You can’t fit a modern headlight into the flat-bottom headlight buckets. (Except for the early GT750 that had a round headlight in a flat-bottom bucket.)
A 72 T250 I got a few years ago did have a round car headlight in the flat-bottom bucket. A PO had used tape to fill in the gap so that the headlight would stay put — was hurt-my-eyes ugly.
An interesting future possibility is the use of a 3D printer to make an adapter to fit a small round headlight into the bucket. The adapter could be made to look like glass, so it might actually look presentable.