'78 GS1000E restoration project

[noobie]

I also bought a red model GS1000 in 1978 which I recall was a HC model - which was a European spec machine. It was as a number of you have described - alloy wheels, twin solid disks up front and the decals as described.

It was very similar spec to the E.

Later in 1978 there were a limited number of twin disk, wire wheel models imported for Production Racing.

The wire wheels were lighter and provided better options for tyre choice. They were used in the 1978 and 1979 Castrol Six Hour production Race.

Now that I'm sufficiently confused , can anyone tell me if the HC and the EC had the same serial frame numbers or did the HC have different ones? I think I can remember this site having an explanatory page that can tell you which model exactly you have based on your frame number, but I can't find it anymore

EDIT: found it on gs-classics.de in a pdf file. Seems like the only difference between an HC and an EC is that the HC doesn't have a dash in the middle of the number. Example:
HC: GS1000500001
EC: GS1000-500001

 

[Bill Alexander]

this is where i get most of my info on the european gs models:
http://www.gs-classic.de/index1e.htm

another good site:
http://www.suzukicycles.org/All-Suzuki/all_suzuki_models.html

the model you an noobie have seem to have been first presented in 1977 and was available in europe from early '78

Thanks, I don't recall seeing those sites before - it is while since I googled GS1000.

btw, do you have a thread on the gsr about your rebuild?

No - not really much progress to report in a thread. Rather stop and start over the last 5 yrs !!!! :-\\\