Mid-South ride, eat, and meet

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Yours truly admiring Porsche heads.

 

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Pat Williams Racing


Babe Demay and Leo Goff
Fast Racecar

 

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Pat Williams The man himself

 

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Motorheads Gathering on wednesday nite

 

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Had a large time. Nice to visit Pat and see some racing Porsche heads. Years ago I refurbished a lot of heads for Pat, stock and racing. The heads I did helped Pat win a lot of races. Pat has a lot of stuff on the internet. Do a search of Pat Williams Racing, Pat Williams Porsche, Pat Williams German Auto. Pat built complete Porsche cars, engines, chassis's. He is a race team manager, race car driver, business manager, the complete package. Do a web search and watch him drive the cars he builds. Thx Pat.

 

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Old K bike battery bolts, rubber mounted between the threaded ends. I think new ones are over priced. Went over to Fugitt Rubber Supply. They took one look, no not here. Called Marshall, 'come over, I got some'. Should have started at Marshall's first. Memphis's BMW parts guy.

 

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BMW Motorcycle Parts

 

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Good to have a goto guy to find the stuff.

 

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Marshall, Steve, and R75/5




Tuning the bike. It had spark, fuel, it turned over. Why won't it start?

 

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Marshall showing off his R69US


Bike started on 2nd kick and it idled perfectly. I think the telescopic forks and the performance muffler and the sport tank and the raised white letter tires and the Hella turn signals and the solo seat and the chrome fork brace and all the other ands really make this bike look cool. Marshall your one cool dude.

 

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Coletta's Italian Restaurant



Left Marshall's, realized I hadn't eaten all day. Decided I would go to one of my all time old favorites. Colletta's at 1063 S. Parkway East. Mid town off I-240.

 

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Spaghetti and meatballs, a salad and bread. I got stuffed.

 

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4 Little Problems



Four broken battery box mounts. Well the bike is 30 years old, hard to believe.

 

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4 Little Solutions



Gotta get the broken pieces outta the engine block. and the new pieces installed. Hard to believe little stuff like this holds up the process. When the new mounts are installed they will have some anti seize on the threads. Onward and forward.

 

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Another Solution

Had a buddy call me about a work around to the rubber BMW mounts. Mercedes-Benz was the answer. Got 4 air pump bolts.

The new MB bolt on left and the used BMW battery bolt on right. A few days ago 4 broken bolts and a $100 solution, now 4 free used bolts or 4 new bolts at $8. Good to have buddies that helps a brother out, thx Guys.

 

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Now back to cleaning, scrubbing, knuckle busting detailing until I run into the next crop of little aggravating stuff that drives me crazy.

 

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I'm debating putting a Mercedes-Benz Three Sided Star in circle with Laurel Leaf sticker on my bike to honer my aftermarket accessory.

 

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Broken Battery Box Studs


WD40 and vice grips. Couldn't seem to get them broken off studs to move. Hammer and chisel was the ticket.

 

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Dirt, grunge, grime, just old nasty stuff. Sad. I'm going to have a talk with the owner about this.This is so pathetic.

 

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OK, a little better.