Sorry for not updating you guys on the progress for a long time. I hate to say that with the exception of a few new parts being ordered the bike is pretty much in the same spot as it was in the last picture updates. I have however learned about this bikes colorful past:
One the left hand side case cover there was a welded repair. Not thinking it was anything more than a repair after one of its many wrecks I ground and polished it off. I later found out after talking to my uncle, who originally bought the bike from its previous owner, I learned that the weld was done to repair a whole made by a Police .357 mag. Apparently its first owner made a hobby out of out running Oregon's finest officers. As the story goes he did this until an officer punched a hole in the engine which caused him to wreck the bike resulting in his arrest.
couple years later this guy gets out of prison has the bike repaired and proceeds to out run the cops again. gets arrested again after wrecking the bike again and goes back to prison. This time the guys wife/girl friend decides to sell the bike and story to my uncle.
My uncle makes the repairs and rides it for a few years then sells it to my grandpa who rides it around until the late 80's when the clutch goes out. bike gets parked and sits outside in and out of cover for the next 20+ years.
