Okay, there is a little history here. You have to read this before you see the photographs.
Before I was as knowledgeable as I am not about trikes, I found this old YT 175 race trike in a salvage yard. I though it was a Tiger. I bought it for $25 and brought home a rusty yet a full rolling race chassis. I had no idea what I had found. I contacted Billy and told him I found a Tiger. He said I was wrong and it looked like more of an YT. I had no idea back then. I spoke to an old flat track racer that I met out of pure chance. He told me everything about this old trike is special. The front forks, the rear suspension, even the frame was all after market. While he and I were rolling it up to the garage at my house the frame collapsed. I agreed to sell it to this old racer because he said he could build a new frame. Later on he brought the chassis back to me and said he could not take on the project for various person reasons. Still unaware of how rare the parts actual are, I then sold it to a guy who really wanted to get into trikes, and wanted a restoration project.
Well, when I ran into him again, I knew what I had given up. So I talked him into selling it back to me. He said I could simply have it. What I picked up was hart breaking. He had cut the rear section off that threw the rest away. Then he cut the plus two axles up and threw away the three inch wheel spacers. And to add insult to injury, he simply threw the rest into a fire. What you see is all this is left.
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Originally Posted by Blown 331
