A couple new arcade toys, well kind of

chris25810

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I did some work on a relatives house a couple months ago and knowing that insurance settlement wasn't gonna leave much for me i had my eye on an alternative payment method. Partial payment was a working English Mark dartboard which was quickly sold off but the real gem for me was a couple boxes of brand new parts ($1300 worth of receipts enclosed) that belong to these.

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A new battery in one, fresh gas in both and down the road they went after sitting for years. The gold one will be sold but someday i'll get around to restoring the red one. Anybody else have one of these in their younger days?
 
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There's a complete big bore kit in one of the boxes of parts and a load of other engine related goodies to pull a few more horses out of this thing.
 
Got the Honda "mini-trail" from my grandparents when we were kids. Still have it and it still runs. Ahhh, the good ole days of running the mini bike into the swamp at the cottage -- brings back so many memories!
 
A buddy of mine had one of these when i was 12ish and damn we ran and beat the hell out of it, lots of fun memories for sure. Now all i need is to get stopped by a cop as i tool around the neighborhood with no plates/tabs/insurance etc. When he looks at my license and sees that i'm damn near 40, i hope he just tells me to go home, grow up and out of the goodness of his heart, he spares me a ticket.
 
My dad bought a Trail 70 "for the family" when I was a kid, but I hardly got to ride it because he was always on it! He sold it when we moved up to Alaska. To this day, I wish he would have kept it so I could finally get a turn to ride it :D
 
A buddy of mine had one of these when i was 12ish and damn we ran and beat the hell out of it, lots of fun memories for sure. Now all i need is to get stopped by a cop as i tool around the neighborhood with no plates/tabs/insurance etc. When he looks at my license and sees that i'm damn near 40, i hope he just tells me to go home, grow up and out of the goodness of his heart, he spares me a ticket.


If you get stopped tell the Cop to call me..I'll tell him you can't help yourself..your a recovering game geek..who now builds houses again...;)
What else can you be expected to do with your free time!:D
 
My brother and I had a Honda 50 that we shared, and then later my Dad bought me a 70; but it was missing 2nd gear. Still rode it around, though.
 
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I lusted after one of those in my youth, every time the Shriners would ride by in the parade on them, I'd be reminded how much I wanted one.

I settled on a different mini bike with a torque converter and wire spoke wheels. It went like a bat out of hell and looked the part; I wish I still had it....
 
This is like the one I had. The throttle would stick sometimes and it dragged my dad through the yard once. LOL
 

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