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1975 Graco 
#1 2007-04-09 7:10pm
- El_duderino
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1975 Graco
1975 Graco
Bike is missing the tank and number plates but fully original and in decent shape.
Found this bike for pretty inexpensive it looks fully original except for a couple of the platic parts are missing. It needs another hour or two on clean up it was thick with dirt and grime which I think protected the chrome a little clean up went a long way. 
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#2 2007-04-10 12:56am
- shivadread
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Re: 1975 Graco
Welcome to the site, I like your ride
RIDE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT
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#3 2007-04-10 1:12am
Re: 1975 Graco
That Graco is a nice Bike I saw the first bike built next to my factory in Taiwan. This bike was keeped in secret until it was shipped. This bike is almost the same as the Panda MX 4 shocker. Check it on the P for Panda Bikes on this sight. You are very lucky to have one.
Randell [Panda bike owner.]
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#6 2009-01-16 3:13pm
Re: 1975 Graco
Wow! I haven't seen one of these since I sold mine about 18 yrs ago.
Couldn't get new Knobbly tyres and the replacements looked far too skinny. The tanks were the first thing to get wrecked....the top of the suspension used to crease the plastic when handlebars were in full lock..... which meant you ended up with a vertical pink stripe on both sides of the red tank.
The bushes went in the pivot of the rear swingarm which meant it travelled further sideways than it did up and down...... BUT HEY ... I was a kid with a bike that had suspension. AMAZIN!
www.theanswer.ie Irish rockers rockin the States
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#7 2009-01-16 3:44pm
Re: 1975 Graco
Actually... Just thinking about it... God knows what make mine was. My Da spent ages repainting it and put new stickers etc on it before I got it for Xmas when I was 7/8.
It had drum brakes!????
Drum Brakes? Does anybody know about Graco copies or later models with Drum Brakes?
And It was effing heavy!
Ta.
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#8 2009-01-16 4:23pm
Re: 1975 Graco
Maybe it was a Rampar.... Got the same vertical pink stripes on the tank
http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/rampar/493
www.theanswer.ie Irish rockers rockin the States
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#9 2009-04-29 11:08pm
Re: 1975 Graco
Panda had the first drum brakes on our production BMX bikes thats why I had a free wheel on our bikes. 1975 I think Panda was the first BMX to have a free wheel. Graco had coaster brakes on their bikes the ones I saw in their factory.
Randell Kim [ Owner Panda Bike Co.]
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