This weeks collection comes to us from Tony DeSantis in New Jersey.
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"I have many restored vintage Kawasaki's. I'm restoring all the bikes I once owned. Here are some photos. The first picture is a 1970 Kawasaki Coyote MB1-A Mini Bike. Kawasaki made this bike from 1969 to 1971. It's a pull start 3hp 4 stroke with a centrifical clutch engine made by Kawasaki but was a close copy of a briggs and stratton engine. I restored it to new original condition. The second picture is a 1971 kawasaki MT1 parnelli jones model, he indorse the mt1 the first year of production. This bike was the first of the 2 stroke mini's for Kawasaki It was later called the kv75 and was produced from 1971 to 1980 this was my the second bike I owned and it would smoke the Honda 50. With it's 75cc 2stroke engine and 3 speed auto trans. The 3rd picture is my 1972 Kawasaki G5 100. I had this bike at around age 13 and took the lights off and put kobbys on it and rode the wheels off of it. I restored this 100cc rotory valve motorcycle to it's original condition. It's even street leagle. My next restore is my 1976 Kawasaki kx125. All these old bike bring back great memories and started my motorcycle addiction at a early age that I have passed on to my son who is now 19 years old and has been racing since he was 8 years old."
- Tony
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Cool- I had a 100cc kawi with the high and low range 10 speed trans that you shifted via a lever on the right side of the handlebar. Low range was cool as it had tons of grunt for 100cc's. Mine was orange with the same stripes, I could wheelie it forever and was the envy of all the kids in our small town because of it! Brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic restoration Tony, those are amazing.
RacerX- a quick review of the submissions for grammar and spelling errors would good to do.
cool tony, those were the days ehh, bet my chibi 50 (by rockford)...3 speed auto woulda gave ya a run ;P
Hey Tony if you read this and you are interested in selling that 75 put an email address on this message board where I can contact you. That was my first bike when I was a kid! Thanks
wow joemotocross I had a chibi too! Remember it's big brother the Taca I think it was. I got to ride one of those once, too. Way cool! I actually forgot about them. Thanks for reminding me. Chibi was orange and the Taca was yellow, I believe.
@bucky, yeah both my brothers got taca 100's, red/ w white on the tank (kinda red orange) my chibi was blue.....----now before that was the sears spider by golly :O ,,,,,,,,,2 1/2 briggs,.....kinda like the new 450's :o
BTW i rode the wheels literley off my chibi.
Your toolbox has a Honda, a Suzuki, and a Yamaha sticker on it and you restore Kawaskis,................ well at least you represent all 4 japanese brands!
Great resto work Tony! My bro and I had the kv75 as our pit bike in the 80's... painted it all red and put Maico stickers on the tank and covered any Kawa logo's w/ stickers... a lot of people at the races thought it was a Maico mini because there weren't too many of these kv's around!