.......I'm going to hijack my own thread here, but........after having a good look at Al Roof's " Chris Carter Replica", with no disrespect to Al, I don't think its much of a replica. Going on appearances only, it looks like he's only changed the rear guard, headlight, bars and muffler and turned the rear brke arm over.
After reading the article you sent me last week, I must have read it when it originally came out, because the majority of the things done to the American bikes were the same as we did to our 400C's back in '77.
Roger