Fast forward to last weekend. A bunch of my club's members attend the Nesco vintage ride and swap meet every year. They all have vintage bikes of some some sort (none really pristine--mostly just ridable survivors), so they ride Saturday, then troll the swap meet on Sunday. I wanted to check the event out and see what came out of the Pines. I purposely rode my street bike to the event so that I wouldn't do anything stupid, like buy another project.
I parked the bike near some club members and made it two tables into the swap meet before dropping $10 on a Kawasaki C-series KDX service manual. Sweet. I moved one more table in and saw this.
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Oh, boy.
The seller said that it belongs to his buddy, who rode it up until a few years ago. He had been meaning to reassemble it, but was just never going to get around to it. It's mostly intact, with a tub of the removed parts included. It also had a nice seat up until that morning, when it blew out of the trailer and got run over. It was surprisingly clean, appeared to have been stored out of the elements, and the bin of parts really did include everything (except a front number plate) All in all, it's about a 1000% better starting point than my '83 was.
I lingered for a few minutes and then wandered the rest of the swap meet. Lots of cool stuff to see.
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As the meet was wrapping up, I wandered back to look at it again. The guy selling it knew the hook was set. (I was wearing my Kawasaki hat, after all). He said the seller wanted $400, but was negotiable because of the seat incident. I offered $350 and it was immediately accepted. (should have offered $250!!) One of my fellow club members loaded it into his truck and dropped it at my house. Let the project begin!