I thought I would post a few pictures of some new to me 1978 Honda Z50's I picked up 3 of them a few days ago. I need a few parts to make them complete. all three need the head lights and one needs the side cover. if anyone looking has these parts and want to sale them please PM me.

That was the first bike I ever rode!!! dang near brought a tear to my eyes!!!

Did you get those off of CL? seems I saw a few a week ago or so.

They where on CL a few days ago. The guy posted them Monday night and I was the first person to go look at them on Tuesday. it was a nice score.

WOW talk about a flood of memory's from the early days!

Nice score.

sweet i thought they were pretty cool looking when i came across them.

I saw a site that was dedicated to restores on them some time back, dam, I'll have to look for it here but they sodl parts OEM as well,I also saw 1 on ebay restored for big bucks before the econmy took the pliunge, thing went for like 3 grand!!
http://www.z50power.com/projectsrestorations.html

A site called Vintage Honda has anything you need, not cheap but OEM. I'll post some pics tomarrow. My passion is restoring old Honda Z-50's. I have a 1970 z-50 KO2(mint), 1980Z-50R(mint)' 1985-ATC 70(mint)& the cleaneast original I've ever seen on EBay or Craigslist 1985 FatCat.

I'm restoring a 74 Honda XL250 can someone tell me were you can get a Engine paint that is close to the original colour that Honda used ?

I like the QA50 or as it might be called in the US Amigo?

Just media blast it to a nice even finish and put Engine clear coat on it....It keeps dirt from sticking to the metal and gives a "new factory" look.....
Redman

What media did you use to blast the motor (( Internal Combustion Engine ? ))? That is a nice looking bike. Thanks for sharing

Nice find Gene! I have had several trail 70s and ATC 70s over the years and looks like the same Engine setups. I wonder if thier headlight assemblies and other parts are interchangable? Headlight mounts look the same too. I have a 70 and 110 engines, among other parts stashed away. Keep us posted with progress.

Gary

I used a combination of a metal oxide and plastic bead,the metal to cut away the dirt and the platsic to pean the cut.
Sorry I can't remember the exact name of each media but I will check the bags and get back on that.
I bought a cheap blasting cabinet off Ebay and totally dismantled the motor (( Internal Combustion Engine ? )) to blast each individual Engine case which I then washed in hot soapy water and cleaned with a high pressure water cleaner to remove all traces of the blasting media.