Here's the strangest find of the year. This is an original custom from the '70s in an original Denver Frame. The owner recently died and his wife is escaping memories, in bad health, while trying to find peace in the desert. It breaks her heart, but she's selling everything. “I told my husband I will […]
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In the late 1930s this one-of-a-kind Helicron was placed in a barn and forgotten. More than six decades later this odd lost little gem was rediscovered, rebuilt, and reintroduced to the world. Although the manufacturer is unknown, it's believed that this car was built in France 1932. Following the first World War it was not
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In the late 1930s this one-of-a-kind Helicron was placed in a barn and forgotten. More than six decades later this odd lost little gem was rediscovered, rebuilt, and reintroduced to the world. Although the manufacturer is unknown, it's believed that this car was built in France 1932. Following the first World War it was not
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In 1935 a group of five German engineers named Killinger and Freund from Munich started to design a more streamlined and modified version of the German Megola front-wheel drive motorcycle that had won many motorcycle races in the 1920s. An original Megola. The work took three years to complete but the result was impressive. The
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In 1935 a group of five German engineers named Killinger and Freund from Munich started to design a more streamlined and modified version of the German Megola front-wheel drive motorcycle that had won many motorcycle races in the 1920s. An original Megola. The work took three years to complete but the result was impressive. The
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Here's a compelling story about a jewel of a motorcycle, a lifetime career of restorations, inheritance and the antique motorcycle blues. So where do I start? I discussed antique motorcycle collections with some restoration nut cases recently and they pointed to three recently discarded collections. Each collector's dream became only a dollar sign to family
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Here's a compelling story about a jewel of a motorcycle, a lifetime career of restorations, inheritance and the antique motorcycle blues. So where do I start? I discussed antique motorcycle collections with some restoration nut cases recently and they pointed to three recently discarded collections. Each collector's dream became only a dollar sign to family
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Indian’s venture into three-wheeled territory began in the late 1920s with so-called “traffic cars,” commercial three-wheelers that over the ensuing years produced several variants. As the story goes the genesis for the Dispatch-Tow seen here occurred in 1939 when Indian and a local Springfield, MA Packard dealership teamed up to find a way to have
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Indian’s venture into three-wheeled territory began in the late 1920s with so-called “traffic cars,” commercial three-wheelers that over the ensuing years produced several variants. As the story goes the genesis for the Dispatch-Tow seen here occurred in 1939 when Indian and a local Springfield, MA Packard dealership teamed up to find a way to have
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I've got a little story to tell you that I think you will find interesting. I am a retired airline pilot (for the time being) who met a pilot for Air France at the Harley dealer in Salt Lake City in the summer of 2005. Since we both flew the B-777 we had an instant
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I've got a little story to tell you that I think you will find interesting. I am a retired airline pilot (for the time being) who met a pilot for Air France at the Harley dealer in Salt Lake City in the summer of 2005. Since we both flew the B-777 we had an instant
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For immediate release. 15 September 2008 – San Francisco – Certain competitors, once in the saddle, put an indelible stamp on events and, similarly, there’s a select group of racers who create an affinity with a single brand. There is no finer example of this than the long-standing link between Marty Dickerson, Vincent and Bonneville.
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For immediate release. 15 September 2008 – San Francisco – Certain competitors, once in the saddle, put an indelible stamp on events and, similarly, there’s a select group of racers who create an affinity with a single brand. There is no finer example of this than the long-standing link between Marty Dickerson, Vincent and Bonneville.
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In a not so hostile takeover, bicycle mogul Ignaz Schwinn acquired the vaunted Excelsior company in 1911 and then in 1917 acquired another “trophy” company in the form of the Henderson Motorcycle Co. purveyors of the now iconic Henderson Four seen here. Detroit-based Tom and William Henderson had started building their four cylinder machines in
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In a not so hostile takeover, bicycle mogul Ignaz Schwinn acquired the vaunted Excelsior company in 1911 and then in 1917 acquired another “trophy” company in the form of the Henderson Motorcycle Co. purveyors of the now iconic Henderson Four seen here. Detroit-based Tom and William Henderson had started building their four cylinder machines in
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This could be a 1919 Single H-D model the precursor to the first Peashooter in '26. Photo from the Bob T. collection. Hill Climbing like jazz is an American invention. The idea is to get to the top of a very steep hill faster than the next rider. And you and the bike must arrive
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This could be a 1919 Single H-D model the precursor to the first Peashooter in '26. Photo from the Bob T. collection. Hill Climbing like jazz is an American invention. The idea is to get to the top of a very steep hill faster than the next rider. And you and the bike must arrive
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Everybody knows him as the ultimate stuntman who achieved the famous motorcycle jump (and that on a Triumph made to appear like a German bike) in Steve McQueen’s “The Great Escape.” Others remember him as a daring-do racer. In addition, Bud Ekins also enjoyed tinkering with time machines. Case in point this totally stock, “original
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Everybody knows him as the ultimate stuntman who achieved the famous motorcycle jump (and that on a Triumph made to appear like a German bike) in Steve McQueen’s “The Great Escape.” Others remember him as a daring-do racer. In addition, Bud Ekins also enjoyed tinkering with time machines. Case in point this totally stock, “original
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What’s a rare 1930s vintage German BMW doing in a 21st century Boss Hoss dealership in Harbor City, CA? That’s the question we asked Victor Vert owner of California Boss Hoss Motorsports. “I had gone up to Don Whalen’s place to look at an Indian Four he had restored and had up on eBay. I
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What’s a rare 1930s vintage German BMW doing in a 21st century Boss Hoss dealership in Harbor City, CA? That’s the question we asked Victor Vert owner of California Boss Hoss Motorsports. “I had gone up to Don Whalen’s place to look at an Indian Four he had restored and had up on eBay. I
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Curator's Note: The following story is an excerpt from the handwritten 1901 Summer Journal of Edward I. Horsman, Jr., age 27, the son of a prominent New York toy manufacturer. Edward spent his summers, as did many high society members, in Europe and rubbed elbows with the elite of the Old World. Edwin Lemare and
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Curator's Note: The following story is an excerpt from the handwritten 1901 Summer Journal of Edward I. Horsman, Jr., age 27, the son of a prominent New York toy manufacturer. Edward spent his summers, as did many high society members, in Europe and rubbed elbows with the elite of the Old World. Edwin Lemare and
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Canonball Bakers and crew. Whenever one writes anything about Australia, it should begin with a song, probably the country’s most famous. I first heard it as a kid watching a movie made in 1959 called “On the Beach.” Gregory Peck played a submarine commander heading for Australia hoping to find some survivors from a nuclear
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