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Title: Penton Identification
Post by: flattracker23 on March 04, 2011, 05:28:12 PM

I picked up another Penton parts bike today. Frame number is 54 504 83657. Motor number is 5-5407302. I am thinking it is a 1974 1/2 Penton 250. Does anybody know. I will ad a picture when I get home.

Spencer Gaydon
Lubbock, TX

1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 774)
1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 1194)
1972 Penton / Wassell Mudlark Trials Bike (W 397 ST)
1983 KTM 504 MXC (8208 11173)

Title: Penton Identification
Post by: 454MRW on March 04, 2011, 06:29:14 PM

54 504 83657. 1975 made in April of 1975, basically the same as a 74-1/2, but made in 75, (504). 5-5407302 250 Engine also produced in 1975 (5-54). Mike

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Title: Penton Identification
Post by: flattracker23 on March 05, 2011, 12:19:30 AM

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa7/SpencerGaydon/Motorcycles/Motorcycles062.jpg)

Spencer Gaydon
Lubbock, TX

1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 774)
1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 1194)
1972 Penton / Wassell Mudlark Trials Bike (W 397 ST)
1983 KTM 504 MXC (8208 11173)

Title: Penton Identification
Post by: flattracker23 on March 05, 2011, 12:27:26 AM

Quotequote:Originally posted by 454MRW

54 504 83657. 1975 made in April of 1975, basically the same as a 74-1/2, but made in 75, (504). 5-5407302 250 Engine also produced in 1975 (5-54). Mike

Thanks for the reply. I should have known that from the frame number but I am a little rusty. I was thinking 1974 1/2 from reading the Production Year Guide but now I see it is a 1975.

Spencer Gaydon
Lubbock, TX

1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 774)
1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 1194)
1972 Penton / Wassell Mudlark Trials Bike (W 397 ST)
1983 KTM 504 MXC (8208 11173)

Title: Penton Identification
Post by: flattracker23 on March 05, 2011, 10:39:44 AM

What model would it be? It looks more like a motorcross bike than an enduro. It has a smaller narrow tank on it and does not look like it ever had lights on it. Is it still called a Hare Scrambler?

Spencer Gaydon
Lubbock, TX

1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 774)
1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 1194)
1972 Penton / Wassell Mudlark Trials Bike (W 397 ST)
1983 KTM 504 MXC (8208 11173)

Title: Penton Identification
Post by: Larry Perkins on March 05, 2011, 10:53:16 AM

It was called a 250 Hare Scrambler but the only difference in the MXer and the Enduro was tank, pipe, and lights. Same bike.

Larry P

Title: Penton Identification
Post by: flattracker23 on March 05, 2011, 11:00:50 AM

Thanks

Spencer Gaydon
Lubbock, TX

1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 774)
1968 Penton Six-Day 125 Steel Tanker (V 1194)
1972 Penton / Wassell Mudlark Trials Bike (W 397 ST)
1983 KTM 504 MXC (8208 11173)

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