Floating fender is easy. All you need is a sidemount headlight bracket from Jammer's the width of your fender. Drill the fender front holes oversize, add a collared bronze bushing from the hardware store. Buy or make a couple 3/16" holed tabs, weld them to your swingarm. Add struts from the rear of the fender to the tabs. Headlight bracket bolts under the stock seat mounting rails.

Bars are 1", buy non-dimpled.

Here is a Savage with apes... MY Savage with apes.


Seat is a stock pan with 2 layers of blue camping pad and waterbuffalo leather. Made the seat 10 years ago. Blue ensolite is all you need. HD and Honda cables, generic modular braided stainless brake hose.

Rear fender does not float on mine, I raised the rear via 800 Intruder shocks. Rear of fender is bracketed to fishtail pipe end.

I'm 6'2.5" 235 pounds. My Savage fits me perfectly.

Small Saddleman Drifter or Desperado. Can't remember off hand which I have, only difference is the studs. Not as small as they look. They don't fit stock length fenders. And they will each hold about 15 cans of beer. Maybe more, been awhile since they were more than decoration.

1954 Ford Squire. The panel version was called a Thames. The trunk model sedan was called a Popular. Ford of England.

You can drive it down a standard urban sidewalk. Lots of legroom, it's only a 4 cylinder. That is my stepson's car, former Hollywood prop car. Powered by a hopped up 1.4L Datsun (with one year only clutch/trans combo) with head off a 1.2L fwd.

Hard to work on, parts are expensive.

If you watch Austin Powers part 2 (whatever it was called) keep a sharp eye in the background. Car was in it.  

finally got around to putting my rear fender, tail light and blinkers on. still not done with it. but is looks pretty good. still have to make the mounts for my sissy bar to attach to my fender but i can almost stand on it the way it is. i know after i mount the sissy bar i will be able to. i will be able to put a pass seat on there if i wanted to. (although i won't)   i am hopping to get to cutting my frame so i can mount my new spring seat on there. i went on a long ride today and my a$$ is killing me. so that will make me hurry up on my seat. my spring tensioner is starting to get louder so i am going to have to do the mod for extending it sooner than later.



i also made a new tail pipe for it. i made a baffel to try to change the tone of it. going to try a couple of types to get it to sound the way i want it. it will be black after i get it the way i want it. i had my work coar it so ut wouldn't rust.


as you can see i also got my blinkers and tail light and liscense plate bracket mounted. im not real sure i like the tail light yet. i might end up changing it. oh and i bought a gps mount and a power supply for my bike too. now when i get my new tank and do the chain conversion i will still have a speedo works great ordered it off ebay for like 20.00. just so you know don't put the wires on backwards because it will fry the controll board on the charger. needless to say i will be ordering some chips to fix my mistake........

That pic with Pokey and Gumby (Savage and Ford) was taken at my old place in Buckley Washington. Car is still in Puyallup Washington.

I live less than an hour north of Memphis. Yep, Tennessee, not the original Memphis (Egypt, been there, they can keep it). .

People keep telling me my old beaters are worth real money here. Somehow I doubt my 72 Super beetle is really worth $6K, it's a dust covered hunk of junk taking up space in the barn. I raise fishing worms under my 1949 Dodge truck, my 69 Dodge truck just hauls brush now.

Book value on a car like gumby is only a couple grand. Was sold new at the Ford dealership in Ashville NC. Only a few thousand were imported between 53 and 58, but they still aren't worth squat stock. An 8hp flathead 4 cylinder and a 3 spd is pretty much useless.

Diggin the build storm....anxious to see the final seat config. When I bought my bike the previous owner had already hacked the rear frame horns so I was kinda in a box, I decided to make my own seat and mod the stock fender.

Once I make up my mind on the color I'll fill the holes and weld the tabs to the fender so no hardware is visible.

WD wrote on 05/31/11 at 15:39:03:


72 superbeetle eh... I gots one of those too... same year even! Mines a Wolfsburg Ed. Convertible tho... nice little toys eh?  I'm currently selling mine tho, time to let someone else have some fun  If anybody's interested....