Toaster Tanks

[Deleted User 62]

What years were the toaster tanks available? Would there ever be one with the space for an under tank master cylinder? Reason I'm asking is there's one for sale being billed as "NOS, taken off a '72 when new", but then it looks like this, and I'm pretty sure the gas caps weren't chrome in '72 either:

[Kurt in S.A.]

Front disk brakes came out with the '74...there were no toaster tanks for '74 as far as I know. Before that, it was drums and the tanks didn't need the cutout...unless BMW began to include them in anticipation of the change.

It looks like that gas cap is on some of these R75/5 toaster tanks:

http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/photopages/photosr75-5.htm

Kurt in S.A.

[Unclviny]

I have heard MANY times that my bike is "wrong" because it is a 1973 with a Toaster and "they were only offered in 1972".

Vince

[Kurt in S.A.]

Jeff Dean has a pretty good discussion about tanks in this era. His has a '73 toaster...he's pretty particular about his bikes. He mentions that some '73s had the toaster tank and mid year they began to have the cutout for the master cylinder in advance of the '74 disk models.

http://bmwdean.com/fueltanks.htm

Kurt in S.A.

[Garnet]

I think that the 72's did not have factory pinstripes and the 73's did.

Edit: more here: http://www.boxerworks.com/forum2/viewto ... ter+trivia

[Duane Ausherman]

I can hardly believe just how mixed up people are about these tanks. It was only 40 years ago. If we can't keep that straight, how in the world can we know what happened in history some 2000 years ago?

The chrome came out in 72 with the new models. No 71s ever had the chrome. They were built in late 71, but in the USA titled as a 72 model.

All small tanks had the cutout for the MC. More on my website about these tanks.

[Deleted User 72]

I can hardly believe just how mixed up people are about these tanks. It was only 40 years ago. If we can't keep that straight, how in the world can we know what happened in history some 2000 years ago?

The chrome came out in 72 with the new models. No 71s ever had the chrome. They were built in late 71, but in the USA titled as a 72 model.

All small tanks had the cutout for the MC. More on my website about these tanks.

Do you REMEMBER all this stuff? Or do you just go to a convenient web site and look it up?

[Duane Ausherman]

While I was a BMW dealer at the time with the largest service department in the USA, I do have to look up certain things. I go to w6rec.com.

Actually, I remember well under half of what I once knew. Being away from BMW for the past 35 years didn't help much, but old age isn't either.

[Deleted User 62]

Thanks for the information, y'all.

[bbelk]

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