GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?

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GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?

Post 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?

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Re: GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?

Post 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.
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Re: GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?

Post by joolstacho »

Splitting hairs, but GT500A had a chrome headlight shell and the final GT500B had a black painted shell.
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Re: GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?

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It's also very different from earlier T500s.......



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Shame Suzuki never kept the "horse shoe" headlight idea going :cry:
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Re: GT500 tank and headlight - same as other models?

Post 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.
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