Making good progress on getting sidecar mounted. Hooked up frame. Bottom mounts were pretty easy to fabricate. Went through several configurations with to top mounts before I was satisfied plus making room for  body to fit frame. Test drove with frame only and had to make adjustments to toe in and lean out. Will install a steering stabilizer before next test run. Body is just siting on there for now to see how it looked. Will take it off and repaint it to match bike. Y'all have a good day now ya hear. God Bless.

Got this home safe and sound last Friday. Granddaughter was out today and has already claimed it and named it. She wants it to be called "Rock & Roll". I will probably do that before I am finished with it. Below are a few pics of it after I dismantled it. Have to adapt to my BMW K100LT. Have to paint the body to match my bike. Y'all have a good day ya hear. God Bless.

New Toy

Going to pick up this used sidecar today. A California Friendship One.  Going to mount it on my BMW. Have to repaint it and fabricate new mounts to fit my  bike. Wish me luck. God Bless and Ya'll have a good day. YaHear.

Just finished what I call phase 2 of updating some things on my old Ford. I bought a kit to convert the fro drum brakes to disc brakes. Purchased the kit from Wilwood. This is a great kit. Easy bolt on process. The calipers have four pistons each. Tons of stopping power and that is what I am looking for. Besides this kit I installed a vacuum assisted brake booster along with a master cylinder that is designed for disc brakes. A must have if you want your brake system to work properly. Plus  this all dresses up  the old girl pretty nicely. Thanks for taking the time to look. Yall take care now...ya hear and God Bless

I have decided as a winter project  to update some  things on my old Ford. I am at present replaceing the entire rear end from stock to a 1964 Mustang rear end. The original rear end had 3:30 to 1 ration. My RPMS are running a little high to my liking. The Mustang rear end has 2.73 to 1 ratio. This will give me a better running gear going down the road. I plan to take some road trips in it next summer. It is a good road gear.
A good practice when replacing a complete  rear end for one that has been sitting around out of a car and lying where the elements can get to it is to  replace the gear lube, replace the brake shoes and also replace the wheel cylinders. Wheel cylinders are only about ten bucks each and well worth the  peace of mind. One of  the drums was cracked so I purchased two new ones. Braking is very important to  me. The only alteration I had to make to  the rear end was to cut of the spring pearchs and weld on new ones. The stang rear end was only one half inch wider than  the  original which only computes  to one quarter inch per side. And yes I made sure my beefy radials  would fit  before I went to all this trouble. The pic is of the old rear end and components used to make the change. My tranny is out of a 78 T Bird. Automatic C6 therefore I had to alter the drive shaft. Front of drive shaft is now for the T bird tranny and the rear is for a 68 Mustang....reminds me of the old Johnny Cash song. Does anyone know which on that is???

I sold My 1972 BMW R75/5. A guy from Denver bought it. I met him in St. Louis with it and he then rode it to Denver. 974 miles with no problems. Not bad for an old bike that sat for 35 years in a garage until I found it. See previous blog about it.
I then turned around and bought this 1990 K100LT. What a great bike. It has all the bells and whistles and if it ever stops raining I am going to ride ride ride.
Yall have a good day now. Ya hear. God Bless.

As I said in one of my previous post I bought this old 1972 BMW R75/5 late last summer. Took it apart and cleaned it up. Engine was locked up. Got it free and rebuilt carbs and did all the stuff it took to get it running good. Well, I just sold it to a kid in Denver last week. He was working in St Louis and saw the ad I had on Craig's List. He paid me to take it to him in St. Louis. As soon as I rolled it off the trailer he start packing the saddlebags and said he was going to ride it back to Denver and would send me a note as to how his trip went. I had only put 25 miles on it after I got it running. I got  a note two days later that he did 974 miles in 24 hours and the bike made the trip like a champ. I knew this was a solid old bike. German engineering back then was great.
Yall take care know and GOD Bless.