A while back I acquired some minibike related ephemera from OldMiniBikes member and fellow New Jersey guy Jeff4298. A lot of miscellaneous stuff.....brochures, flyers, price sheets, etc..... all of it very cool.
The crown jewel in the lot though was this original "title" that came with his CAT 400X way back in 1969 which he had saved all these years.
It even came with the cool story of how he got the bike. Seems he had been eyeballing a CAT 350X for months. When he finally saved up enough money his dad drove him down to the store, but the CAT 350X was sold :crying:
All they had left was a CAT250 and a 400X.....so he had to "settle" for the 400X :drool:
Here's his own words:
"Oh I forgot to answer your question about my Cat 400X, I saved up my money from working with my Dad and one night after work we went to the Kiddie City in King of Prussia PA and I counted out 213.00 or so with tax. It came in a huge box and luckily we had a van. I rode the wheels off that thing. Went through 2 sets of tires, 4 sets of disc brake pads, rebuilt the 4hp Briggs once, replaced the handle bar bolts like 30 times, in fact I used to carry extra bolts and the wrenches with me when I went riding. I sold it 8 years later still running like a top to a friend for 150.00. At a high school reunion I asked what he did with it and he can't remember. It still might be somewhere in Schwenksville PA Look for the one foot peg to be missing last I saw it it was orange. The stories I could tell about the fun I had on that bike!!! "
_Jeff
...now all I need is the '69 400X to go with it :shrug:
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The crown jewel in the lot though was this original "title" that came with his CAT 400X way back in 1969 which he had saved all these years.
It even came with the cool story of how he got the bike. Seems he had been eyeballing a CAT 350X for months. When he finally saved up enough money his dad drove him down to the store, but the CAT 350X was sold :crying:
All they had left was a CAT250 and a 400X.....so he had to "settle" for the 400X :drool:
Here's his own words:
"Oh I forgot to answer your question about my Cat 400X, I saved up my money from working with my Dad and one night after work we went to the Kiddie City in King of Prussia PA and I counted out 213.00 or so with tax. It came in a huge box and luckily we had a van. I rode the wheels off that thing. Went through 2 sets of tires, 4 sets of disc brake pads, rebuilt the 4hp Briggs once, replaced the handle bar bolts like 30 times, in fact I used to carry extra bolts and the wrenches with me when I went riding. I sold it 8 years later still running like a top to a friend for 150.00. At a high school reunion I asked what he did with it and he can't remember. It still might be somewhere in Schwenksville PA Look for the one foot peg to be missing last I saw it it was orange. The stories I could tell about the fun I had on that bike!!! "
_Jeff
...now all I need is the '69 400X to go with it :shrug:
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hmy: Wouldn't that be something if it's still there????? stay tuned:thumbsup:
