Now I know you guys like a good resto and as some of you may know I recently acquired the USA Griter frame and bits of eBay. I've started a sympathetic restoration of it using good original parts.

Here's as it arrived.



This is after I've cleaned and polished the frame.



and here's a couple of close up shots.

First thing i did was to fit both fork thimbles and both bearing cups to the head stock.





Then I fitted the forks to the frame and used a cateye reflector bracket.



Here's the frame complete with the forks.

 

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Here's a close up of the badge that identify's the frame being for the US market.

lookin clean there supergrip...

good to see you're keepin the frame and forks survivor, look forward to seeing this one finished.

Good luck with this one mate!    looking good so far, keep us posted with pics on the progress, look forward to seeing it finished.  

Looking good.
Did the guy find them other bits he said he might have?
If so the offer still stands if need them collecting.
Don't suppose you have any more of them fork thimbles    

What sort of money did you pay for it?

That's wicked!
Out of interest, what did you use for the background on the photos?

It's a white paper infinity curve at my studio. Just lit it with a soft box overhead and tweaked the contrast in photoshop to get a clean white. It comes on a four and a half foot roll and cost about   £50.00

C47ers

I didn't get much change out of £100, But since I have most of the missing bits it was worth it as it will be worth quite a bit when it's built up.

Nice one, i'd say that was a bargin, post the pic's when you've finished it. I had a USA blue many years ago, long gone now to the local tip. i've been on the look out for another for sometime now they like rocking horse pooh.

Hi Supergrip,

Do your USA Grifter's have holes under the saddle for the UK reflector arm and screw? Just wondered why they bothered with a seat post mounting reflector which seems more likely to get binned by a kid than the seat mounted option.

Hi 1977

The seats on my other two USA,s have the hole but is thinly covered over with the black seat rubber.

I think it may have something to do with the fact that the front reflector is made by cateye and is attached to a cat eye lamp bracket so they may have gone for the same on the rear. Cateye reflectors have there own type of fitting which would not fit on a normal Grifter bracket.

I've done some more work on this frame and hope to have some more pictures to post over the weekend.