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Bridgestone 350 GTR 1968 restoration. Multiple show winner.

Please like and subscribe as it helps circulation of this post. I never had any intention of making a flip/photo album for YouTube when I restored this 1968 Bridgestone 350 GTR back in 2013, in fact I didn't even know it was possible. I took these photos mainly as a reference while restoring the bike and as proof that this work had been done to a high standard when the time came to sell it, also there are a good number of photos at the classic bike/car shows were I exhibited the GTR over the following 18 months or so. I was successful in winning an award at every single show where it was on display with the exception of the 2013 Bristol Classic Bike Show where it won nowt, this was a shock to many of the exhibitors and trade stands and was put down to the ignorance of the judges who didn't know anything about Bridgestone Motorcycles, it was the only Bridgestone on display and drew much attention with the majority of viewers who also didn't realize the Japanese manufacturer we all associate with tyres made excellent motorcycles in the 60s as here with the GTR. The GTR has grown in popularity since 2013 with imports from the U.S. but is still considered very rare, an original U.K. bike is even rarer still. So how did I go about deciding on a GTR? As a restorer of rare Japanese classic (see my other uploads) I was on the look out for something different when by chance I came across this 1968 Bridgestone 350 GTR for sale, got to admit I'd not a clue what it was but after having Googled it I thought yes this could well be the one. More research and I discovered I could get many of the parts usually needed in a restoration from the U.S., to my surprise many were N.O.S. as an old closed down Bridgestone dealer's warehouse had recently been opened up full of Bridgestone parts, with this information I travelled up north and bought the GTR. I was told the bike didn't run, had no spark and there had been an issue around the front sprocket, but the big bonus as with any restoration was that it was all there, all original. I'll not bore you with what I did during the restoration, the pictures show that but a lot of money went to the States mostly to the person that had bought up the Bridgestone inventory, also to the chrome platers and the painter here in the U.K. I'll also add that the U.S. based Bridgestone 350 GTR forum were a great help, thanks boys. This bike ended up nut and bolt perfect, just as it left the factory in Japan and was appreciated by a collector who contacted me asking if I'd sell the bike after he saw it at a show, yes I sold it.