the "how u found your barn find,yard find when u bought it "thread

[toddy]

as it says this is a thread to share photos of your 3 wheeler in the condition when you bought it, weve all bought other peoples forgoten projects. heres mine, 1985 200es under a tarp. lay for 7 years, even got it started,

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i436/marc20111/F1CB0555-2813-4DA0-8019-6C6AF92D24D5-339-00000026CAB2F2A5_zps36923414.jpg (http://s1093.photobucket.com/user/marc20111/media/F1CB0555-2813-4DA0-8019-6C6AF92D24D5-339-00000026CAB2F2A5_zps36923414.jpg.html)

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i436/marc20111/3045DFF1-D539-4BD4-A318-791F799621B9-339-00000025C91F9749_zps52cf3a31.jpg (http://s1093.photobucket.com/user/marc20111/media/3045DFF1-D539-4BD4-A318-791F799621B9-339-00000025C91F9749_zps52cf3a31.jpg.html)

[shortline10]

I picked up an all original 1982 185s last Tuesday , lost a piston shortly after it was purchased new , has sat in a garage for 31 or so years , I installed a new piston and she fired up on the first pull , original tires still have the tits on them :lol: .

[90nut]

i was doing some concrete work at a guys house this summer and as i was leaving i spotted a trike leaning up against the neighbor garage wall. turned out to be a blue 110. all original, just doesnt run. made room in my truck and took her home

[dougspcs]

How about a trifecta find?? Michigan seller last spring listed on CL, he was leaving the state and needed to get rid of his toys. I showed up to look at two he had listed and when I got there he had four in the yard..I only had room for three on my trailer so I took the best three!

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They were barn stored for most of their life. Really clean machines all of them..ES needed tires, all needed batteries and fuel system cleanups.

At $1800 for the three machines a definite find of a lifetime!!

[toddy]

nice one ive just had a 250 big red delivered and i must say with the plastics off shes like brand new
http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i436/marc20111/T2eC16dHJHoFGlOYNOlBSUSsuCmlQ48_80_zpsbd0924a2.jpg (http://s1093.photobucket.com/user/marc20111/media/T2eC16dHJHoFGlOYNOlBSUSsuCmlQ48_80_zpsbd0924a2.jpg .html)
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[Big G]

I picked up an all original 1982 185s last Tuesday , lost a piston shortly after it was purchased new , has sat in a garage for 31 or so years , I installed a new piston and she fired up on the first pull , original tires still have the tits on them :lol: .

Post up some pics Shortline!

[shortline10]

New computer and camera :confused:
Wish I could :lol:


Post up some pics Shortline!

[MRSOUND]

Mine wasn't in a barn but in a pasture as evident by the pony eaten seat foam :rolleyes:
Then
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Now (with alot of time & $)
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[6speedthumper]

Found mine at my buddy's cousin's place. 1985 ATC350X. Was sitting on the back of an old flatbed truck in a field. Got it with a 87 200x chassis for $225. That's after calling the guy who "owned" it, and I wheeled and dealed with him. This is what she looked like when I got her home, and had to cut the engine out.

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/patio88/0520031923_zpsde8177be.jpg (http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/patio88/media/0520031923_zpsde8177be.jpg.html)

Then a couple months later, I came across this on ebay an hour and a half from me. For $100!

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/patio88/0718031849_zps0b6b8f21.jpg (http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/patio88/media/0718031849_zps0b6b8f21.jpg.html)

Everything is apart and being worked on (slowly). lol. But it will be worth it in the end:)

[King Trikester]

nice find 6speedthumper, I would love to find something like that one day. Its good to see something like that fall into the right hands, theres a lot of people out there
would look at that 350x as a pile of junk and throw it away or something ridiculous. You know what they say, "one mans junk is another's treasure"

[coolpool]

Answered a kijiji add and picked this up for $350. The guy took it in as payment for money owed from some deal years ago. He never touched it after that. It cleaned up nicely.

[6speedthumper]

nice find 6speedthumper, I would love to find something like that one day. Its good to see something like that fall into the right hands, theres a lot of people out there
would look at that 350x as a pile of junk and throw it away or something ridiculous. You know what they say, "one mans junk is another's treasure"

Thanks. I'm glad I found the roller. I wanted an X for years, and finding the engine (locked up and rusted) in the rusted frame was the start of the dream come true. lol. I was going to abandon the project once I figured how much I'd be putting into a 300ex conversion. Then, I found that 86 roller, and it was on!

[New2Tri-Z]

Here is my backyard find I picked up last Nov. 86 Tri Z.
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After lots of cleaning, powder coat and $$$ here is where we are at today
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Just waiting for Klemm to get my big bore done and then this roller will be a ripper!! I love watching the progress we make on these things as the time goes by.

[toddy]

looking good guys.keep them cumming. love looking at how these have turned from yard finds to minters

[tripowersport]

looking good guys.keep them cumming. love looking at how these have turned from yard finds to minters what we all are doing is preserving history,some times paying a lot to do it!....but where preserving history. long live the ATC.

[toddy]

Yep i have 6 atc's. I live in scotland and theres only another 5 i know of .mine include
my road legal fully powder coated 250 bigred
my 84 go anywere 200es with winch
my 85 200es (getting full resto)
my 84 200es parts bike
my 85 200es parts bike
and last but not least a 250 big red thats been crashed and rolled and has a bent frame

[oldtime3wheeler]

I bought this off of a 19 year who traded a gas rc car for it. It had sat in a shed for years. Came with all the original paperwork.

[toddy]

thats wicked oldtime3wheeler

[Marty]

179444179445179446179447179448You guys are finding really legit barn finds i feel bad posting what I got, owner had these stored in his shop and had not been ridden for years. Red 88 had brand new OEM red plastic,all polished but needed some oem parts. White one was all complete just changed a few things and both ran very good for first time after being in a shop for many years

[OTAlucard]

I Bought this 200s out of a shed near the beach he said it had been sitting for a long time after he had some trouble with the police it had mods done to it before i got it DG Exhaust etc then i put a 200x carb on it and 200x rear hubs and it was good to go 179450179452



I Bought this 1987 250sx from my friend and yeah it was used every day to go get the mail 2 miles out 179451

[oscarmayer]

found my 200es on CL with no photos just an add from a ladyt saying she needed to sell it. it belonged to her now ex husband's grand dad.

[Jaymesbf]

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1984 ATC 200X Hasn't run since 1990, probably won't be running for at least a few more years. I need the money and know how. Right now, I have neither. Sentimental value, though. So I'll never sell it.

[6speedthumper]

Hell, Jaymes, if you were closer, I'd get the dam thing running for you, just so she doesn't sit any longer!

[shortline10]

test picture with new I phone :lol:
Yes that's original paint and decals .......