cool old ads from the '70's

[Fire-medic]

If you've been around awhile, you may recall these companies, and their products. Cool to look at this stuff.

 

[caseyjones955]

I was alive in the 70s but I wasnt very old. Love the cafe racer.

 

[Jan Bee]

If you've been around awhile, you may recall these companies, and their products. Cool to look at this stuff.

Tracy fairings-A true test.

 

[Fire-medic]

The Tracy bodies were something that made the Japanese 4 cyl. bikes of the day look like spaceships, compared to a stock wasp-waist tank Triumph twin. The Triumph short track bikes sometimes had this style of bodywork, which I think in the formative stages, was probably the design impetus for the Tracy one-piece tank/seat/fender design.

 

[CaptainKyle]

Cool ads ! My older brother had a cb 750 with a Tracy body it was cool

 

[Kronx]

I like the fact that the Tracy advert is almost all hand drawn. Almost as if you can imagine them having a bike shop and tattoo parlor in the same building.

 

[Nubicon]

The guy I bought my Buell from last summer had a Tracy bodied Honda 500/4 in the garage with some snazzy black panther paint job! It was so 70's it hurt

 

[Fire-medic]

"What is old, is new-again."

The March 2017 issue of Cycle World has a custom DT-07 Yamaha twin, done by Jeff Palhegyi, that looks very-much like a Tracy one-piece tank/seat/rear fender. It's the cover feature story. CW's input: please build this, Yamaha!

Palhegyi was so-motivated by the design exercise he was commissioned to build for Yamaha, he built a street-legal version for himself. Pics below are of the Yamaha concept bike. Looks like CaptainKyle's recent VMax paint job, yes? Well, that's a 1970's paint pattern Yamaha used across its line for awhile
and I've got a vintage Yamaha tank top to prove it.

The guy I bought my Buell from last summer had a Tracy bodied Honda 500/4 in the garage with some snazzy black panther paint job! It was so 70's it hurt

 

[SpecOps13]

Prices sure have gone up, pay hasn't kept up....:bang head: