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wheelsmithy’s 1994 Honda XR 650 L

A buddy gave this to me after it sat outside for 4 years. I thought the only way to repay his kindness was to build it into something that would make him incredibly jealous. With that in mind, I bought a supermotard conversion off E-bay, …

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wheelsmithy’s 1990 Suzuki KATANA 600

Streetfighter project. Salvage title. Parts from too many bikes to list. Stock internals, Stage 3 jetting and a pipe. Dirt bike bars. Ammo box saddlebags. Stainless lines. Just got it running after almost 10 years of back burner languishing. Promised I’d “finish” it before I …

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wheelsmithy’s 1989 Suzuki Swift GTi

250+K miles on the shell. Junkyard 20K mile engine. Lower geared Metro convt tranny, headers, lowering springsKYB grs’s Wrecked once, but not by me. I paid $600 for it, but probably have close to $4000 in it now. 14X6 Enkeis I was told were installed …

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wheelsmithy’s 1984 Other RZ 350

Yamaha RZ 350, was mine in early 90’s. My brother bought me an SRX 600 to get it. He did his business with it, eventually parting it down to a rolling chassis and tank. He gave it back in ‘09, so, naturally, I’m putting an …

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wheelsmithy’s 2009 Honda fit

Stock, storm Gray work car. Very well appointed for an economy car. I can’t believe everything works. My first car with working AC! GREAT room inside. Versatile. Great stereo. Doesn’t exactly set the pulse a-thumping, but great at its target mission.

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wheelsmithy’s 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite

The rustiest, Michigan State residing, Locked up, hinges not working, wrecked, almost gone example I could find. That way, zero guilt about cutting it up. Lifelong dream, starting to come to fruition. Tube framed, Japanese engined, Home-built British convertible. Getting a Toyota space van rearend, …

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