Wilit Everrun
Well-known member
This is the start of a long story and I am really bad about taking pictures, but if you will hang with me I will try to do better. I really like riding motorcycles but back in 2005 I had a problem with my left eye that required surgery the result of which keeps me from looking to the left with that eye. Im Ok driving in a car but it can effect my balance so I sold my Harley. 
As the weeks and months wore on, I really missed the wind in my face and decided to build a trike. Here is the story...
A friend had an old rusty frame from a Harley servi-car with a wicked 70's style chopper springer front end. I bought it for 100.00. The plan was to find an old 45 motor to put in it. I quickly found out they are rare and out of my price range. Plus I would have no title and would have to jump through many many hoops.
My dad had an 1973 Moto Guzzi that he wanted to sell, running and titled so I bought it for 1500. It looked something like this:
this is an internet pic because I didn't take pics, mine was in much worse shape.
At the same time I came across a 1979 dodge step-side pick up for 300.00 which I bought. It had a slant 6 and a 3 speed. The truck wan't in as good of a shape as I hoped but I got the motor, tranny, rear end and rear fenders and recycled the rest for 225.00
One thing led to another and I decided to put them all together to build my trike. I cut the Guzzi all apart and fit in the front end from the servi-car frame, and built a huge swing arm for the dodge rear. As I was waiting for the welds to cool I broke the engine down and bored it out to 1000cc
Here is the frame so far with the modified springer front and the dodge truck rear end:
The toughest part so far has been joining the Guzzi motor
to the dodge tranny.
I used a Diahutsu starter and fly-wheel (splined to fit the dodge) to make it all work. The scary part was building the bell housing... I cut the dodge bell down and hacked the whole Moto Guzzi transmission to pieces, and joined them together this week.
the outside pic with a little cleaning and I am trying to figer out how to re position the throwout arm
in this uncleaned inner shot. I had to move it to make room for the gaint starter.
This whole project has been really really slow (4+ years so far), so I am hoping that the pressure of updates will speed things along. I will try to take better pictures from now on. I would love to have it driving by July 4th for the kids neighborhood parade, but I've been saying that for 3 years so far. I feel that it is much further along that it appears in the pics, but every says I have an overactive imagination and delusions of grandeur.
As the weeks and months wore on, I really missed the wind in my face and decided to build a trike. Here is the story...A friend had an old rusty frame from a Harley servi-car with a wicked 70's style chopper springer front end. I bought it for 100.00. The plan was to find an old 45 motor to put in it. I quickly found out they are rare and out of my price range. Plus I would have no title and would have to jump through many many hoops.
My dad had an 1973 Moto Guzzi that he wanted to sell, running and titled so I bought it for 1500. It looked something like this:
this is an internet pic because I didn't take pics, mine was in much worse shape.
At the same time I came across a 1979 dodge step-side pick up for 300.00 which I bought. It had a slant 6 and a 3 speed. The truck wan't in as good of a shape as I hoped but I got the motor, tranny, rear end and rear fenders and recycled the rest for 225.00
One thing led to another and I decided to put them all together to build my trike. I cut the Guzzi all apart and fit in the front end from the servi-car frame, and built a huge swing arm for the dodge rear. As I was waiting for the welds to cool I broke the engine down and bored it out to 1000cc
Here is the frame so far with the modified springer front and the dodge truck rear end:
The toughest part so far has been joining the Guzzi motor
to the dodge tranny.
I used a Diahutsu starter and fly-wheel (splined to fit the dodge) to make it all work. The scary part was building the bell housing... I cut the dodge bell down and hacked the whole Moto Guzzi transmission to pieces, and joined them together this week.
the outside pic with a little cleaning and I am trying to figer out how to re position the throwout arm
in this uncleaned inner shot. I had to move it to make room for the gaint starter.
This whole project has been really really slow (4+ years so far), so I am hoping that the pressure of updates will speed things along. I will try to take better pictures from now on. I would love to have it driving by July 4th for the kids neighborhood parade, but I've been saying that for 3 years so far. I feel that it is much further along that it appears in the pics, but every says I have an overactive imagination and delusions of grandeur.
