Bought for £75 as a boxes of bits and a rolling chassis

Now undergoing extensive repairs and rebuild/re-paint/re-chrome.
named "Tanner" because of the 6P in the registration number
(a tanner was the nickname for an old UK coin - sixpence)
From Yamaha's database, its the 500th one built.

It looks like it was taken off the road because the piston was breaking up. It had been standing for a considerable time as a lot of the parts were very rusty. Various bodges have been found during the initial strip down. The rear sprocket is almost smooth - devoid of teeth! A few parts (rear mudguard, headlamp and headlight mountings) have been painted in black - very badly. The exhaust system is rotted through quite badly and it will require extensive welding if its to be re-used. Right now the bike has been hastily put back together to enable a list of required parts to be drawn up. I was given a "low" mudguard for the bike which I think maybe off a TY175, but that's the one I will use for the rebuild as primarily the bike will only be used on the road.

Already I have bought some parts off E-Bay for the bike; 
Seat, wiring harness, oil tank, another headlight (also in black....hmmm)
a new exhaust pipe from the US at great expense. I recently  bought a new 
piston & rings so its just been rebored. 

A whole heap of the parts have been sand or bead blasted;
Cylinder head, barrel, headlight bowl, headlight mounts, chain guard, chain guide 
engine skid plate, number plate/light mounting, rear light base etc. 

I expected to have he bike somewhere near roadworthy in Summer 2006 (dream on)