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Vintage CJ750 turn signal
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During summer, 2007 I had an arrow on my
grey bike. |
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A whole box of Chinese turn
indicator arrows from Xitek.com |
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It's arrow time at our place. Five arrows
were waiting when I got home from being on the road. The
two on the left are from Jim Bryant and
the rest came from Gerald. |
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This is a Gerald arrow.
It's different from the others in a number of ways, most
significantly the silver colored casing (as opposed to
olive drab.) This one came in the original box. |
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The packing slip for the arrow above. It's
the same as slip shown below and dated July, 1965. |
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Here's how they look at night when lit,
courtesy of Moto8.com. |
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| Boxed NOS arrows from Gerald:
"Here are pictures of arrows that I just brought
back. They are in their original boxes. Some are from
ShangHai and others from Beijing. The ones from Shanghai
were made in 1965 as the tag tells us. The ones from
Beijing came in a more colorful box." |
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Gerald frequents a place
known only as CJ Wonderland where he found some arrow
turn signals. Yep, this is the real deal. |
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Gerald sent this picture is
from a movie showing a Guomingdang officer on a Harley
with an arrow. That's righta Harley. |
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These classic old turn signal arrows turn up
in much of the earlier CJ750 manuals and parts catalogs.
Most of these examples are courtesy of LRM.
Every one of the bikes in these illustrations has a turn
signal arrow. |
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These arrow pictures are from Camera Union. |
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| Government propaganda photographs and
artwork depict the arrows used primarily on motorcycles
however they can also be seen on cars, trucks and even
tractors. Look closely and you'll see that not all of the
bikes used by the PLA were CJ750s (or even Dong Hai 750s
for that matter.) In fact, does anybody know what the
bike in the first image is? It may be the legendary
Chinese Zundapp copy. (Courtesy of LRM, Clay
Jones and Frans de Wit.) |
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This picture was posted on Moto8. Curiously, this flatty also has
turn signal blinkers. |
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Check this out. It's a Dong Hai 750 with an
arrow. It also has a set of blinkers. |
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I wish I knew the story here but the
accompanying information was in Chinese. These pictures
are also from Moto8. |
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And last but not least, arrows at LRM.
They're available for all you traditionalists. To order
one, just send Gerald an e-mail at gardebledg@yahoo.com |