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https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...white_prep.jpg


you see where we are going with this

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Yes...yes we do!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

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unlike the Nova, this gold and white ride is getting the max engine upgrade

https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...-img_31831.jpg


like a big block in a Vega


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Here's Mike showing my grandson and son-in-law how things work, we are trying to convert them from stick and ball sports to motorsports.

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needed to tack on this rod to hold the drum brake assembly, it was formerly a friction brake set up
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...-img_32071.jpg

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I'm really enjoying this thread, being older than most of you, as a kid in the mid fifties I had a little scooter that was called a Doodle Bug, this was before the name &quot;minie bike&quot; was coined. These little Doodle Bugs are very pricey now, if you can find one. They are being reproduced at around 3K which is much cheaper than a restored original. The original scooter that I had was like the one in the photo that I attached except mine was black. They had Clinton engines and would run about 25 MPH. They were sold at Western Auto Stores. After the Doodle Bug I moved up to a Cushman scooter which I still have a couple of those today.

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----Hey Tommy,,,I also had a Doodle Bug. I think that by the time I got mine someone had stripped it down a bit as mine didnt have all the sheetmetal on it. Probably trying to lighten it up. Little bugger was fun......Bill S

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The OHV and 2 stroke engines sure beat the heck out of the flathead B&amp;S or the twin Mccullochs we had to work with... twin McCullochs on a Go Kart and we thought we were BIG TIME!

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Bill,
Check out Ebay Item number: 221171205189

Pretty neat and really looks very much like the original

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a bit more drilling and stretching to make some of these newer parts fit on the old frame, plus the extra large motor required some mount massaging

https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...0-img_3216.jpg

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ape hangers, tighten all the bolts, add an extra throttle return spring (ALWAYS). and we are ready for a test run.

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