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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.
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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.
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Leo you've really got something for these K75's. Perfect bike for Daytona, Barry. Small compact, watercooled. Don lends a hand. Don has put thousands of miles on K75's. He's a believer.
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Eric and Leo on the warmup set. Very nice and bluesy. Eric did a tribute rendition of one of W.C. Handy's 1909 tune, about Beale St. 'If Boss Crump don't like it ain't goin to happen 'round here'. A little before my time, but it was pure Blue's.
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!I think this engine is for the split window coupe Corvette.
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!
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!
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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?
Was looking for more stuff for the ST project. I reallly wanted to find the rocker arm assembly;No luck. Got up in the rafters and found a good size box; a set of Olymic saddlebags. Nice bags; a kinda of Krauser style knockoffs. Not what I'm looking for. Go to the other end of the garage and up in the rafters is a slightly smaller box. Gotta be the Moto Cases. Put this stuff up here ptobably 10 years ago; maybe a lot longer. Yep that's them. Shimmied up and got the box down. I could shimmy a lot better 10/15 years ago. Not so much now.
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Nice bags; inside were the keys, BMW badges and red reflectors.
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My kinda bike. A little tattered. Better said, it's a diamond in the rough.
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.
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Leo. Scrappy. Brian
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Leo. Scrappy. Brian. and Walter
Scrappy is one bad, I really good harmonica player.