Little project that kept me busy

[BigCars4Ever]

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/As_found.jpg
Spotted this at my friends car lot out back. Asked what he was doing with it and he said he had taken it in as part of a trade years ago but if I wanted it I could have it! Cool!
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/Before_Clean.jpg
Got it home and cleaned it up to see what I was dealing with. Frame was poorly painted, gas tank leaking, rust everywhere. It was a Roketa MC56 50cc mini chopper but was converted to a hard tail by welding bars in place of the shocks.
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/Before_exhaust.jpg
When the exhaust stud broke the previous owner welded the exhaust pipe to the frame.

[martyo]

Very very cool!!!

[BigCars4Ever]

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/Before_front.jpg
Lot of rust.
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/Frame.jpg
Disassembly requires. Lots of labeled bags and boxes. First order of business was to remove years of grime and lots of overspray from the car lot.
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/Stud.jpg
Broke the easyout in the stud so I had to resort to drastic measures.
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/Weld_1.jpg
Tig welder to the rescue. A little weld and some grind to get rid of the crap. Repeat about 6 time using an infrared thermometer to control keep the temps in check.

[BigCars4Ever]

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/Weld_2.jpg
A little more weld
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/weld_3.jpg
Got the basic shape just needs finish sanding then drill, tap and paint.
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/Finish_2.jpg
Here's the almost finished product. Lots of welding, grinding,polishing, sanding and painting to get it to here.
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/720/medium/Finish_1.jpg
Other side. I still have a few things to do like make a seat pan to cover all of the wiring and paint the exhaust because it is pretty rough looking but it goes pretty good. Had a lot of fun on my little project. And no I didn't paint the tank I scored a NOS tank and that's the way it came.

[BigCars4Ever]

I'll have to get a picture of me on it so you can see how small it is. It is very well proportioned so it looks like a full size bike but it is pretty small.

[Cobra25]

Very nice !!!

[RubberCtyRauder]

Cool!..wheres the BC4E deadpedal on it? :D