Suzuki GT380 brochures

I have collected some Suzuki GT 380 sales brochure scans to show on this page. I would be grateful of any contributions — sales brochures, magazine ads, magazine articles, pictures, specs, facts, corrections etc. Please scan the material in JPEG format (large enough that all the details are visible) and send them to me. Please tell me the source and the publication date if possible. If you send me pictures of your own bike, please follow these instructions.

1972 Suzuki year code: J

1972 Suzuki GT 380 brochure from Japan (2 pages). Click to enlarge. ”New Model”. I found these brochure scans on a Japanese auction site. They are photographes, not scans. I cleaned them up a bit in Photoshop before uploading here. It shows three color options, red, blue and green. It's the first edition with drum brakes at both wheels.

1972 Suzuki GT-380J Sebring brochure from USA (single page). Click to enlarge. This brochure shows the GT380 imported to the United States. The color options were Jamaica Red and Hawaii Green. No disc brake yet on the export model. Litho in USA.

1972 GT-380 J sales brochure from France (4 pages). Click to enlarge. I have seen that this brochure have been made in several languyages, at least in French, German and English. This is the first one I have found complete (I believe) with all the four pages. Printed in Japan.

A detail from a 1972 Suzuki full line brochure page. Click to see the whole page. The scan was kindly sent to me by Gary Jesswein, USA. Here's more scans from the same catalog.

1973 Suzuki year code: K

1973 Suzuki GT 380 brochure from Japan (2 pages). Click to enlarge. This '73 domestic GT380K brochure shows three color options: green, blue and white. The model has now disc brake at the front.

1973 Suzuki GT 380 brochure from Italy (single page). Click to enlarge. It seems that Italy may have been alone to offer a Gold colored GT380K. I found the scan on Ebay.

Two different versions of a 1973 GT380K sales brochure (single pages). Click to enlarge.

1973 GT-380K Sebring sales brochure from USA (single page). Click to enlarge. Color options: Canyon Red, Coronado Blue. This brochure was scanned by Triple Ed. Courtesy of precisioncycles.net.

1973 Suzuki street bikes brochure scan from USA (3 pages). Click to enlarge. This scan was sent to me by Gilles Nault, Canada. Six classic Suzuki models: GT185, GT250, T500, GT380, GT550 and GT750. The pages are taken from the '73 Suzuki USA full line catalog. Here's more scans from the same catalog.

1973 Suzuki GT range brochure scan from UK (8 pages). Click to enlarge. ”A champion breed for champion riders!” This classy catalogue with the Suzuki models GT250, GT380, GT550, T500 and GT750.

1974 Suzuki year code: L

1974 GT380 sales brochure from Belgium. Click to enlarge.

1973 Suzuki GT380K Sebring sales brochure from USA. Click to enlarge.This brochure was scanned by Triple Ed. Courtesy of precisioncycles.net.

1974 Suzuki GT series catalogue from Japan (10 pages). Click to enlarge. I found these images of this catalogue on a Japanese website spangss.com, it seems to be the entire catalogue, showing all the GT series bikes Suzuki had to offer in 1974. The 50 cc bike was the only one that did not receive the 'GT' model name, it was called GA50 instead. The GT models for 1974 were: GT750, GT550, GT380, GT250, GT185 and GT125.

1975 Suzuki year code: M

1975 Suzuki GT 380 brochure, International version (single page). Click to enlarge. This brochure scan was sent to me by Niels Christian Jessen, Denmark. Printed in Japan.

1975 Suzuki NGT380M sales brochure from Italy (single page). Click to enlarge. I found this brochure scan on the Internet. It's the Italian version of the brochure above. The model could not be called GT380 in Italy, probably because Ferrari already had a car model with that name.

1975 Suzuki GT380M sales brochure from Canada (single page). Click to enlarge. This brochure scan was sent to me by Niels Christian Jessen, Denmark. Printed in Japan.

1976 Suzuki year code: A

1976 Suzuki GT 380 A sales brochure from Great Britain (4 pages). Click to enlarge. These brochure pages were scanned and sent to me by Gordon Davidson, UK.

1976 Suzuki GT 380 Sebring and GT 500 Titan brochure from USA (Double-sided singel page, 3 narrow pages when folded). Click to enlarge. This brochure was scanned and sent to me by Tim Woodsome, USA.

1976 Suzuki GT series catalogue from Japan (10 pages). Click to enlarge. I found these scans on a Japanese website. I believe it shows the 1976 models. The GT750 model on the cover was launched in May 1975, the brochure may have been printed around that time. The motorcycle models presented here are GT750, GT55,0 GT380, GT250, GT185, GT125, GT100 and GA50. Printed in Japan.

1977 Suzuki year code: B

1977 Suzuki GT-series magazine ad from USA (Cycle, May 1977). Click to enlarge. This American magazine ad was scanned by Lars Sellbom. The ad covers following models: GT380, GT550, GT750.

1978 Suzuki year code: C

1978 GT380C sales brochure from Japan (2 pages). Click to enlarge. I found this on a Japanese website somewhere on the Internet.

1978 GT380C sales brochure from Japan (5 pages). Click to enlarge. Another sales brochure from Japan. I found this somewhere on the Internet. I believe there's at least one page missing here.

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