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Nice engine Charlie Very good Stormin

That's some beautiful restoration work, and such quick turn around times! Amazing! Thanks for posting them

Is your dad the chap who is stopping the Cleveland from falling over? That's a hell of a big tractor! Great photo's Mark

It does look great doesn't it Great work on the restoration Kevin

Just a thought... By Tuesday I should have a pair of Fiat Punto headlamps doing nothing...... Maybe it's a good job the bulbs are going in the car's new headlamps

I will make sure she is fueled up... Not sure about lights though.. It might be handy to be able to see what we are about to hit

I love the different selection of ways you have come up with to hold the bike up Koen I've had a few bikes over the years but I never got on with off road bikes. On the odd time I've ridden them I always felt too high up and not balanced..

Thank you Sir... As it happens, it did feel good to get the award winner dirty, it gives her that used look... The paint has already started collecting scratches and chips... It all adds to the character

Vintage brochures! Thanks. Now I really feel young A little before my time abut a friend did have a T140 that he started restoring at one point

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Morning Charlie, I didn't think it would take you long to post you Cub Cadet here A nice looking machine

Just uploading your excellent myoldmachine trailer to my YT channel

Thanks for posting it Matt... It looks like someone has plonked a cut down smart car body onto a big quad Love it

They look like they handled the ploughing with ease... Nice to see them being worked.. I bet when they were made no one thought they would still be going strong after 50+ years

That's a couple of serious sized tractors! I too really like the Case 601-B, but that might have something to do with it having a full size wheel track at the front rather than the narrow one

Thanks Paul, yep it was a great laugh. Even though I had taken a "back seat" to driving I was smiling behind the camera Yep the wind was getting up a bit.. I cleaned a bucket load of mud and grass off the outriggers alone today.. Need to borrow a pressure washer to clean the rest off!

Maybe you should of fitted floatation tyre's

A fantastic restoration Matt, the "Gary's Case" decals add the perfect and very special touch

I expect we have all been here at some point, having projects that you have started but never finished despite best intentions. Sometimes other projects crop up, sometimes it's a lack of time... But we all must have a project or two we wished we had finished. Here's a couple of mine.. Both quite mad builds.. Project Kartasaki.. Take one Wolf Garten Cart. Pull out the engine.. Cut it in half lengthways! And widen it enough.. To fit a Kawasaki Gpz305 engine with a stonking 34hp.. Like so I wish I had of finished this project as it would of been great fun.. It was about this time that I bought my first Wheel Horse which I started to restore.. Project Kartasaki got pushed to the background while I indulged in the Wheel Horse side of life, and slowly the bike parts got sold off to finance my out of control Wheel Horse habit I never got far enough into the next "wish I had finished it" project to give it a name.. Yep, it's (or would of been) a Wheel Horse fitted with a BMW 900cc 3 cylinder bike engine. I started collecting parts for this build but never could find the time to get really started on it.. So there you go chap's, please feel free to add your own "Projects you wish you had finished" to this thread

That works rather well, although it could do with a few safety guards in place.. Thanks for posting

From this... To This I hope you enjoyed the ride guy's

Thanks Koen, over the years I've become quite good at fitting square bit's of steel into round holes...... Of course a hammer helps By "fun painting" I of course mean a flame job... No brush painting this time... I wanted better than that.. So a bit of internet shopping later I had an airbrush and paints on the way.. Before we get ahead of ourselves here, let's get the slightly more boring bit out the way.. Apart from the air brush paint, all the rest of the paint came out of rattle cans.. Loads of primer first which was flattened down once dry. Then the black... The black was very carefully flattened back to a smooth finish taking care not to sand through to the primer.. Before I started laying flames on the tank I thought I should have a play with the airbrush first.. A good move as I had never used one before.. A few test panels.. Happy I was starting to get the hang of the air brush, out came the fine line tape to lay the flames on.. No templates here, it was done free hand Lot's of masking tape was used to cover the parts I didn't want to flame. A light dusting of white went on first. To help the blue stand out more. De-masked.. The next part did require a custom template thingy.. Once again white went on first, followed by yellow. Some orange and red highlights were added. Stig unmasked Only one thing left to do, the clear coat..

Thanks Neil.. Dinner eaten and a few more photo's found I wasn't happy with how the front end looked, it needed a bit more rake and a bit more length.. Chop chop. Gone! Some box section was welded inside to put the strength back.. Plated and painted over. Time to sort the bodywork out.. A Kawasaki Gpz305 fuel tank was fully washed out.. And sliced open so I could get it to sit low over the frame. Fitted with the filler hole plated over.. The real fuel tank came from an old J.A.P engine that was attached to a water pump. Rear wings were made from box skinned with ally sheet. Fitted. A cover for the battery was quickly folded up. As the rev counter was now quite a way from the engine, I joined two rev counter cables together to make a rather long cable.. Don't ask me how I did it, I can't remember! By rather long, I mean 81 inches long .. Despite the length it worked well with only a little "rev lag". Joining two clutch cables was easy. Some of the electric mounted.. This was all hidden under the seat. The chassis stripped down for final welding and painting. Reassembly begins after painting... Coming up next the final part and some fun painting.. But first I need to pour myself a glass of red wine

A little bit more before my dinner is ready.. This er.. Interesting set-up was made to get the power from the engine to the trans.. Yes that is a reinforced box spanner on the left side of the sprocket! The box spanner bit slot's onto the nut that fit's on the bike gearboxes output shaft. A couple of these chain adjusters were made.. One side bolted in place. The complete chain adjuster from above.. To help the engine keep it's cool behind the driver seat, this cooling fan was installed.. It's a car heater fan but I've not idea what from.. With a bit of fiddling I managed to graft mini moto brake discs onto the trans axles.. A trimmed down Kawasaki Gpz305 caliper could just be fitted inside the rear wheels!! More later, dinner is ready

It's a shame you never got to finish it. Liking the old/vintage look