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Mid-South ride, eat, and meet
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Leo Building Small Block Chevy Engine
I think this engine is for the split window coupe Corvette.
I think this engine is for the split window coupe Corvette.
Early Allard
Taking a break and ‘crusin’ in the Von Dutch Allard. Good times from the past.
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Got to do the 50 year anniversary reenactment of the Watkins Glen Road Race back in 1998. On the real track in town and out in the county. By accident we were allowed to be on the tract with the real cars that actually did the races back in the late 40's and early 50's. This car is a modified '52 Allard K2 painted by the famous artist Von Dutch. Known for painting customized cars and motorcycles. Leo Goff at the wheel and me navigating. If I remember right, Leo had built and installed a pretty hot 5.0 liter HO engine. Happy Days, like Richie and Fonsie.
Taking a break and ‘crusin’ in the Von Dutch Allard. Good times from the past.
Curator Par Exalance
Remember this Leo.
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I was a curator. Which meant I was the chief maid, gofer, janitor, flunky, detailer, driver, etc and so forth. 10 years of fun, excitement, travel, rally's, races, rubbing shoulders with billionaires, millionaires, royals, race car builders and drivers, race track personal, good folks, crooks, shysters, doctors lawyers and Indian chiefs. Good memories and experience's. Wouldn't do it again for a $1 million. Then again if you gotta a $1 million, need a curator, let's talk.1949 Allard K1, powered by a Mercury flathead V8 It wasn't too fast, but it sure had a nice throaty flathead rumble. Chrome waterfall grill was kinda unique.
Remember this Leo.
Leo Servicing His K75
Leo is always workin. My buddy Don lending a hand. Don has 1000’s of miles on a lot of different BMW models. He’s covered pretty much all of North America.
Leo is always workin. My buddy Don lending a hand. Don has 1000’s of miles on a lot of different BMW models. He’s covered pretty much all of North America.
Leo and Eric 'Scappy' Hughes
When Leo ain't wrenchin and workin he's playin and giggin all over Memphis; here on world famous Beale St. with Scappy. If your in Memphis try to catch Leo at one of his many gigs. Well as soon as the country is opened up.
When Leo ain't wrenchin and workin he's playin and giggin all over Memphis; here on world famous Beale St. with Scappy. If your in Memphis try to catch Leo at one of his many gigs. Well as soon as the country is opened up.
That engine was one I built to go in the Yellow Allard J2, it was a 265 Chevy engine, bored and stroked to 377 cu.in. 3 Rochester 97 carbs....3 Deuces!
A couple of other things about the tool&adie shop at LooseLeaf. My Dad set it up so all the die's and tooling was done in house. When a new die was to be built my Dad would bid on it against outside tool&die shops. He always got the job for us in house. That meant all the guys got to build die's in house. This was a great moral builder for the shop. We built all the components and did all the heat treating. It was an exciting time in my life. Taking raw metal and processing it into into all the individual pieces, doing all our own heat treating, hardness testing, assembling the components on the die sets, putting them into the presses and getting good parts. These dies were very complex. The thumb levers were a 7 step progressive die. Neat to do the whole job to a finished die that made good parts. Funny, I can't remember the proper name of those thumb levers. Those and the arches are the parts I nickle, chrome, plated. I guess it's the on set of old timers disease.
I've been making decisions on motorcycles. Deciding what to keep and sell. Gotta deal going on with a buddy of mine to build my R80ST. He was talking about wanting a R80GS. Told him I had the next best bike a R80ST. I had parts of that bike allover my garage and shed, just a total disaster. Been moving bike parts over there for a few days. I've been collecting parts for 15 years. Stuff was everywhere and more still to find.
Finally found the heads.
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I reworked these heads probably 15 years ago. Glad I finally found them. Now where's the pushrods and rocker arm assembly?
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Was out in Tucson, Ar.,probably 10 years ago. Went to Iron Horse BMW. Seen a lot of their stuff in ON's, really over the top stuff. Had a good look around. Awsome dealership. Back in the parts sales dept.; saw this little leather bag on display. Kinda covered in dust. I remembered the old BMW sales ads on '89 R100GSPD. Those bikes had this bag on pictures. Cool looking, but almost really worthless as a bag. The tag read
If I remember $259 discounted to $199. I asked the sales clerk about a little more discount. Naw. OK. Went aroung the store and picked out some more stuff. Went to check out, sans leather bag. During the transaction the dept head came over. I saw you looking at the bag, your not buying it. Nope a little to steep for me today. He went over looked at the sticker. How about for today only $150. Sold!
Been discussing R80ST's; ran across this.
Putting a Bike Together
Redoing a bike, rebuild, restore, freshen up; all different terms to bringing a bike back to life. Some work I did, example the heads. Ordering parts off the internet or doing it the old school way. I went to the the national in West Bend, Wisconsin. After the rally went to the dealer in Chicago. They had good discounts back in the day. Ordered quite a bit of stuff in person. They handed me a good portion of the stuff on site. Some more of the stuff came in mail a short time later. I was in Az. some time ago, stopped in Iron Horse BMW for a visit. Found the leather touring bag on the shelf covered in dust. Made a deal on site. It’s not essential to the build, but it is a nice doodad to have on the bike for a bike show as a conversation piece. It’s almost like a scavenger hunt.
Redoing a bike, rebuild, restore, freshen up; all different terms to bringing a bike back to life. Some work I did, example the heads. Ordering parts off the internet or doing it the old school way. I went to the the national in West Bend, Wisconsin. After the rally went to the dealer in Chicago. They had good discounts back in the day. Ordered quite a bit of stuff in person. They handed me a good portion of the stuff on site. Some more of the stuff came in mail a short time later. I was in Az. some time ago, stopped in Iron Horse BMW for a visit. Found the leather touring bag on the shelf covered in dust. Made a deal on site. It’s not essential to the build, but it is a nice doodad to have on the bike for a bike show as a conversation piece. It’s almost like a scavenger hunt.
Got it. I’m starting to get confused on which engine went to which car. U built a lot of engines and restored a lot of cars in that collection. Pretty impressive Leo.
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I need all the help I can get. Can't sing , can't dance, can't act. Can shimmy a little. I can assemble with proper supervison.
Bike will have a nice early 80's look. Now where's those rocker assembles and pushrods?
Moto Cases.
These bags are period to the ST. These are also the bags that BMW supplied for the GS's and PD'S of that era.
Back in '89-'90 BMWNA had adds showing the '89 R100GSPD going all out with all the BMW accessories, the rider outfitted with then BMW off round riding suits. It had the Moto cases and the little black leather utility case. Wow, it got my attention. The boss of the race team bought that exact model and I got to ride it on a regular basis. I usually ride it to lunch, then 20/30 miles around Memphis. Kinda daydreamed that I was up in the Alps, riding to Macu Pichu, across the Sahara, then back to reality as I got back to the shop. It got all kinds of attention wherever I went. The Harley riders tried to act like they wern't looking. When it was parked and I was gone, I'd catch them setting up and checking it out.
What I said, 5 pics,
More Pics of Leo Giggin in Memphis
Leo playin bass for Scrappy.
Was out last night in Memphis, Tn., went over to listen to the Legendary Memphis Bassist Leo Goff. Leo was sitting in with Eric (Scrappy) Hughes on guitar and lead vocals, his brother Walter on lead guitar, and Brian Aylor on drums. They were in top form. Explained to Brian that I was an accomplished semi-professional listener, and that I really appreciated his ability to play those drums tight and loose at the same time. He was in total agreement.The venue was the Dirty Crow Bar and Grill on Crump Blvd. next to the Budweiser Distribution Co.
Leo playin bass for Scrappy.
Here we go, Leo jammin with Scrappy and his band.
