72 WR 250

Picking up my first vintage Husky this weekend, a 72 WR 250, I will have many questions as time goes on.

First question is did the WR have a lighting coil?

Would the original fenders been plastic or metal?

The bike is complete but disassembled, frame has just been powder coated and forks re chromed. new cables, footpegs, carby plus all engine seals bearings and gaskets, not bad for $1500

sounds like a good start! but wheres the pics??

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Hi just a quick question, the pipe on the 72 wr I am doing has hearts on the chrome panels, never seen them before is it an aftermarket thing?



Slowly coming together.

With hearts on the exhaust, that is a Hooker Header, very common performance mod back in it's day for desert racing. In proper response to your opening post, Your WR would have come from the factory with a Femsa point and condensor ignition with external flywheel and yes, a lighting coil. I am sure it came stock with metal fenders as well. Plastic did not show up until 1974 when the MAG was released.

Cheers, I only seem to have to have one wire coming from the engine to the coil, I guess I have a bit of investigating to do.

Does the wiring for the kill switch just go to earth or will this harm the ignition?

Your engine may have been updated with a Motoplat at some point. You will need to pull the ignition cover and find out now

Slowly making progress.

Just want to know if the Preston Petty headlight assemblies were about in 1972 as I want it all to look right for it's age. If not did people just graft whatever headlight on back in the day.

Please be sure to post any good headlight options you find (and where to get them). I'm in the same situation, picked up a '74 WR250 last weekend, want to get a plate on it but still want to keep it looking period correct. Looked into the Preston Petty ones, not much to be found and what I did find was in rough condition and cost $$$. I'm leaning toward a simple round light with the # plate perched on top, looks as if the plate is cut out a bit to wrap around the top of the light. Nice looking bike.

how would PE lights go? they look pretty old school

The 76 WR's that came into the UK used TY175 lights. Very period.
I think they would look good on the 72, if used with the cut out oval plate above as you suggest.

PE headlights are a bit hard to come by, think I'll just go for a round one with a shaped number plate.

However I have found that an old Honda XR indicator with the inside of the lens painted red makes a good easy to install tail light.

Picked up a nice little driving light with chrome mesh cover for $10 at a swap meet, right size and shape. Just playing around at the moment and it's not mounted properly but it looks pretty good. Cut out an oval the same size as the number plate. I would use a green plate with white race numbers. My missus thinks it looks better without a front number plate.

What do you guys think. Yes or No to the front plate??

man thats gona b sweet i vote for the plate for sure if your gona put a speedo on it or it will look like your DKW

Love the light!, I think the plate would look better if it were more oval shaped, like the standard stock plate (same one for front and sides), but with the cutout like you have. Maybe it just looks round in the photo because of the angle? Anyway the plate would be cool, white or green would look great. Are you going to go all old-school and hand paint the #s?

Wow, what a great find. That bike looks awesome. I think the plate will look good.

This is how the headlight turned out with the number plate, pretty happy with how it looks. Also happy with the green plates and white numbers.

Just need to save some dollars for some nice alloy mudgaurds and hunt down some oval Champion Sparkpulg decals and a few other little jobs and I'm done.

Another thing, when I purchased the bike I was disappointed that the frame had been powder coated black. The black frame has grown on me and now I like it.

Looks great!