Sorry Gary, i guess I was a little short on details. It’s a 1980 Kawasaki 340 Drifter F/A, a one-year build sled and the only free air sled Kawasaki ever produced. The bars probably do look a little goofy but they feel right when you’re sitting on the sled. Kawasaki did take a page out of the bicycle book though and mounted the bars in a block that could be loosened to change the angle of the bars. My wife’s reaction was a little surprising. She didn’t really seem surprised, which made me suspicious, then she said “Well, it’s what you do.”. OK, now I’m really suspicious. Who is this woman? I think she now views vintage sleds as the lesser of many evils.

handlebars remind me of John Deere snowmobile handle bars

Yeah it’s weird, considering Kawasaki wasn’t even on my radar a year ago and now I have two. The Drifter F/A is a unique animal. I’m thinking the windshield was an option. The shop manual I got with the sled shows it without one. Personally, I like it better without. I don’t think I’m even going to have to touch the hood, unless I want to add the “Drifter F/A” decals, which are missing. The fellow i bought it from used to work in a body shop and he painted it and applied the stripes while he worked there. There’s no way I could do a better job. Now I just have to avoid scratching it up too much.