I’m about done with my resto, just a few things left. I picked it up in 1980 as a salvage bike from an insurance liquidator, bike had 62 miles on it. I don’t know if it had been sold and wrecked that quickly or if it was on a demo ride, in any case someone had painted it black with hand painted gold pinstripes before it was totaled. I followed that theme when I repaired it, a few years later I wanted something with more flash hence the black, red, yellow paint. Eventually I resprayed it with the stock color, and this last fall started to restore it.

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:thumbup: Very cool!!

excellent

:thumbup: Very cool!!

excellent


Thanks guys :D

Very nice Z1R!

Been one of my favorite Kawasaki models.
I have an 18" front Z1R wheel on my '78 KZ650.

Is your Z1R a '78 or '80 model?


Ran into this one last Sunday at a meet.
My buddy Dave also just bought an '80 model Z1R.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v494/rstnick/2020_07_05_08.55.21.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds (https://app.photobucket.com/u/rstnick/p/a846d983-1c63-44ab-aa5d-6a1d0d22ec6e)
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Is your Z1R a '78 or '80 model?

Thanks,
Mine is a 78 (D1) around 17,000 made world wide, the 80's (D3) had a some things different and there were only about 3,300 made.