Carolina Chrome March Issue 162

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Back In The Days With Pappy

Brook had just got a K Model, Fat Head Sportster,

Well, I should have started this story like now… I’m a 75 years old that’s been riding for 64 years now, I have owned a bunch of bikes!

Harley-Davidson K Model Sporster

Brody Chase got a BSA 500,

First Knuk was a 47 EL 3 speed with a sidecar… 35 bucks, sold the side car for $50 that fall and sold the bike to the guy that bought the sidecar years later; he gave it to his son Mighty Mike and he still has it. Mighty Mike still 1947 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead EL lives in the house with Sidecar. National Motorcycle Museum he grew up in, and has never been anywhere. Back to the start… Schools are out, so the fun begins! I’m now making $0.75 an hour and gas was $0.24.9, that’s right 24.9 CENTS per gallon! My scooter got about 40 mpg and it needed to be painted, big time!! So, I striped it at Ed Orrs Body Shop, where he let us guys hang around and we would make paint & parts runs for him. Cliff Blogett was the best painter around and I got him a Badger Air Brush to do the flame job I wanted, and it looked so goooood! 14

BSA 1948 A7 500 cc 2cyl ohv

Bobby Michel got a 55 Triumph!

TRIUMPH 1955 T100

We made some weekend camping trips to lake Michigan full of lots of girls and little bathing suits (some stories will never be told). There was a teen age night club not too far from Farmville called the Teen Beat a way cool place to ride to and the girls love bikes; good bands and more fun than the law would allow. Also, the crazy horse barn same thing good bands, lots of girls. Girls love two wheels!

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