King Blackfoot twins - both sold

After I got my Grasshopper running again my son bought a King Blackfoot on a local 2nd hand site. He got it for a reasonable price and in reasonable state given it was meant to be a runner anyway. I got tired of getting my Grasshopper (see link below) run over by his Blackfoot time after time, so I searched and found another 2nd hand King Blackfoot for myself. We had some great fun running them together. To save the rear of the body from too much damage I fabricated some wheelie bars. Necessary as they pull wheelies with great pleasure being ballraced and running just the classic RS540.

On more demanding terrain first the front dampers worked themselves lose in a couple of minutes. After fixing that with bolts and locknuts instead of the standard self tapping screws the dampers started breaking at the bottom. Changing all dampers to oil filled CVA and putting them on ball connectors at the bottom got this problem solved.

At this time both body's had seen better days and when the steering began to give us trouble every time popping lose at the servo or stripping out the strange long bolt and nut construction in the middle of the steering assembly it was time to decide: restore or sell.

We sold them on.