[SamUK]

Another 300, but a gen1 road registered.

I plan on swapping a few parts off this onto mine to make mine road worthy. To ride any trails (byways) in the UK any vehicle has to be road worthy, tax, MOT and insured. Finding this beauty has sure opened up the availabllity of Land I can ride on now. Happy day

 

[XplicitRacing6]

Congrats!! Thats a nice looking bike

 

[UnkleRaRa]

I love the "Big Red" sticker on it!

 

[Jeepwm69]

Nice Sam. Congrats!

There's a guy in LA who has a bunch of those Big Red tanks that appear to be NOS, or close to it.

I don't know if he ordered them in from overseas or what.

 

[SamUK]

My plan with this is to swap over the necessary parts onto mine to make mine road worthy and then put this up for sale again. I’d love to keep it but I can’t really afford to if I’m honest. Prices have rocketed recently over here, this was £1500 which is average, you expect to have issues though at that price. A mint example will be in excess of £2000.

It’s insane really as I can pick up a 2012 420 for £2500 now!

Does look in quite good shape through for a 91. I’ll have to pull the CDI and switch it for a Gen2 I think, lol.

 

[SamUK]

I love the "Big Red" sticker on it!

All 300’s in the UK were known as big reds up until 96/97 when they became the fourtrax. That sticker is original

 

[SamUK]

Nice Sam. Congrats!

There's a guy in LA who has a bunch of those Big Red tanks that appear to be NOS, or close to it.

I don't know if he ordered them in from overseas or what.

Not many Gen1’s over here now, they’ve all gone to ATV heaven or been broken for parts I think.
Ha lucky to get hold of those tanks. Maybe he got them from Europe?

 

[retro]

Congrats Sam, thats a nice looking early 300!

 

[mac102004]

Looks good. Exactly what parts do you need to swap to make yours “road worthy”?


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[SamUK]

Looks good. Exactly what parts do you need to swap to make yours “road worthy”?


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You have PM.

 

[fishfiles]

Nice score !---- a few things that I know don't swop , the both racks , front bumper , headlight switch assembly , choke plunger and cable , front drive shaft , frame , fuel tank to name a few ------

 

[SamUK]

I need to use as many of the 98 parts as possible that will switch over if possible because I’ve noticed that 91 shafts are now obsolete. Not even sure if they are different or not.is the front diff the same? A Arms, hub assembly?

 

[fishfiles]

This is what I would say and may be wrong on a couple -------- the front shafts are different because of length , the frame is different which caused that change , the a-arms are different , the hubs are the same in the front but not the rear as they have short splines , the front diff is the same , also think the cv shafts are different

 

[_Wilson_]

Been catching up here lately....... NICE score Sam, as stated i sure do like that big red tank decal

 

[LBZ_Duramax]

Nice Sam. Congrats!

There's a guy in LA who has a bunch of those Big Red tanks that appear to be NOS, or close to it.

I don't know if he ordered them in from overseas or what.

Do you know how to contact this guy? I might be interested pending a price. I know a guy down there named Greg something had a few of them.

 

[SamUK]

LBZ, if you struggle I found two here in the UK, willing to ship to you if you can’t come across one.

 

[Jeepwm69]

Nice Sam. Congrats!

There's a guy in LA who has a bunch of those Big Red tanks that appear to be NOS, or close to it.

I don't know if he ordered them in from overseas or what.

Do you know how to contact this guy? I might be interested pending a price. I know a guy down there named Greg something had a few of them.

That's him. Greg Gregory.

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[fishfiles]

He is proud of that tank ? -----Makes me wonder what my vintage 1988 300 Fourtrax ( USA ) tank that has been lined and decent shape is worth ? Also got an extra blue 1992 , but it had 50 stickers on it ?

 

[SamUK]

These may be of use to some of you, not sure

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/263454369104

 

[Jeepwm69]

Normally around here figure about $100 for a good clean tank. $150ish if the paint's in great shape. That's tops. I bought a decent green one a couple of weeks ago for $65. Very little bit of rust, one tiny, almost unnoticeable dent on the top.

He's looking for the NOS crowd who want something that looks showroom new. The same guys who want $3500 for a minty 300.