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Harley Show Bike

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A number of years ago, I went on a charity motorcycle ride, “The Love Ride,” the Grand Marshall of which was Jay Leno. This event was a yearly event to benefit The Muscular Dystrophy Association (Jerry’s Kids). It was billed as “The largest one-day charity event in the World,” often raising [...]

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The first vehicle is the first prototype of Dan Gurney’s Alligator motorcycle. Dan now owns the original of this drawing, his son, Justin, bought it for him as a present.

I have a personal attachment to this very bike. One morning, Dan rode my Harley, and I rode this Alligator up the Pacific [...]

Contact sheet of cars and portraits

I said that I would give the answers as to the subjects of these drawings. Here they are, beginning at the top row, left side:

Chris Economaki, sometimes I think that he has been an automotive journalist since before there were cars!

Next, Bruce Meyer, the man that formerly ran the [...]

Morgan 3 Wheeler

England has always had a number of unusual vehicles on the road, they all seemed to fill a need, like this Morgan 3 Wheeler of the 1930s.  A vehicle with fewer than four wheels was classed as a motorcycle, and was charged far less to register for road use. During the World-wide [...]

When he saw this portrait, he asked me to a private [...]

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This posting is about one of the nicest people that I’ve ever met, John Honiotes.  John runs a car show that is on every first and last Sunday of the month, at the Enderle Center, in Tustin, California.  John took over the show that used to be run by Larry Beck, prior to Larry’s [...]

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There are a few racers that I believe are just something special. This posting is about one of those, the late, great Phil Hill.

While I was growing up, I could hardly wait to read the newest issue of Road & Track magazine. I was then, and still am, a fan of sports car racing, [...]

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Unlike most of my blog posts, this one is about something that happened a couple of years ago.  I often go to the World’s greatest book store on Saturdays. It is called Autobooks-Aerobooks, but we car guys call it just “Autobooks.” It is in Burbank, California, and it has books about almost any car. [...]

Dan Gurney has always been one of my [...]

Tony Adamowicz is one of the coolest people that I’ve ever met. I met him about five years ago. At first, I thought that all of his stories couldn’t possibly be true. Boy, was I [...]