{"id":1339,"date":"2016-01-26T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T17:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2016-06-02T22:09:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T04:09:14","slug":"the-field-guide-to-the-suzuki-tgt500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/26\/the-field-guide-to-the-suzuki-tgt500\/","title":{"rendered":"The Field Guide to the Suzuki T\/GT500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As per my last post, I have been working on an update to the T\/GT500 section of the web site, and the first iteration is now complete. As always, it will continue to evolve as I gather additional material either from my own projects, or from other owners.<\/p>\n<p>There are (in my own view) four main versions of the Suzuki two-stroke 500 twin although it was produced for nine years, and close to 95,000 units rolled off the assembly line. I group them as being:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 1968 Cobra (or MK I or 500\/Five as you prefer and depending on your local market).<\/li>\n<li>The Police version called the Patroller.<\/li>\n<li>The various models produced between 1969 and 1975 which varied for the most part only in paint and trim.<\/li>\n<li>And the 1976\/1977 models called the GT500 in most parts of the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/mraxl_GT_Resource\/T500_items\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">new section is here<\/a> and please do check back every few weeks to see it continue to take shape as new material is added.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per my last post, I have been working on an update to the T\/GT500 section of the web site, and the first iteration is now complete. As always, it will continue to evolve as I gather additional material either &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/26\/the-field-guide-to-the-suzuki-tgt500\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,109,331,205,210,242,330,258],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Yjgi-lB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldjapanesebikes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}