With the aid of two fellow Poggers, have been able to come up with decals for 79, 80, and 81...Just posted them to my website under Decals.
cha, Tom Brosius
Tom you are to good to us. I am finished with my 78 GS6, I will send some photos tomorrow. Gary
Thank you very much for reproducing those Tom, now if I could just discover a way to make my plastic tanks white again.
Rob if you can't get it white, I will paint it for you. Let me know. Gary
You can paint those plastic tanks white, but as soon as you put gas in them they will turn color. B. Hahn went through this a year or so ago and the tank looked beautiful and if I recall correctly, shortly after adding gas, discoloration and flaking started.
Maico's suffered similiar problems.
Tony
Guys, Check out this link to the Can Am website. This is a great artical on restoring plastic fuel tanks. The technique should work for KTM's as well:
http://www.motocross.com/vintage/canam/canam35.htm
Chakka
Ya'll let me know what the long-term report is on using the painting method. If it works long term I'll be your biggest cheerleader and will do this to my white KTM tanks too.
Although I couldn't find it here I could swear this same article USED to have a paragraph where they mentioned that keeping the gas tank white involved draining the gas, and flushing the tank with water after each ride. To me that's not really feasible, or realistic.
Phil