T100

Hemi

Mopar muscle car douchebaggary and marketing BS sometimes make you forget why Hemi's rule...

Got Beer?

Too funny.

Speed & Beauty

Robert Stack

Bookends

Here's a nice photo of the Branch roadster I hadn't seen before.

Coffee Before Noon

Nate & Dennis swung by to pick me up after I briefly blew them off to watch the lame CBS Sunday morning Supercross coverage. I'm still roughing it without a DVR so I still have to watch TV when it's on...

The weather was slightly brisk but sunny (whoa, I know. I had to find my long forgotten sunglasses). We ran down to Auburn for breakfast. Great ride but I wish Flathead Rob had been around for it. I owe Nate et al breakfast next go around. Thanks gents.

We happened onto a European car gather of some sort at the same restaurant. I only had a second to grab a couple of photos but there was some rad and unusual stuff there. Sorry, no photos but I saw an actual 60's French rally car. Pretty wild. No shortage of exotic stuff around these parts.

You have to be pretty damn confident in your car's ugliness to park your Citroen next to a Ferrari and not feel bad about it...

Sullivan Collection Book

I was screwing around on Amazon tonight and stumbled across this book. If you aren't familiar with the Sullivan collection you might want to look back at these posts.

Flathead PD

What are the odds that there would be genuine police versions of two of Flathead Rob's bikes on eBay simultaneously?

1948 Washington License Plate

Flathead Rob and I have been hunting for a 1948 Washington motorcycle license plate pretty much non-stop since bringing his '48 Indian Chief home. They seem to me remarkably rare. Part of it might be their novelty, they are unpainted aluminum.

 

While hunting about recently I stumbled across these Pierce County photos on the Tacoma Public Library site. Perhaps this is also a factor:

"Long lines of Pierce County residents filled the second floor hallway of the old Pierce County Courthouse on January 2, 1948 outside the Auditor's office. Motorists had until January 10th to register their vehicles, or a $3 penalty would be attached to their registration fees. Anyone choosing to drive without a 1948 license sticker could be arrested and heavily fined."

Who knows. If you do happen to know where one is or even just have a possible lead, please let me know. I'd really love to be able to help him find one. I'll share the the reason for my recently renewed motivation to find one very soon.

Robbins Pistons

I thought these were kinda neat.


TRIUMPH HIGH DOME RACING PISTONS 40+ OVER .
Made here in California  by Robbins for  the  pre-Unit T100C racers / Grand Prix alloy motors of the 1950S era  NOS from an old California race shop  Probably 12-1. made during the time when Triumph dominated the 500CC class in American racing.

Scramblers

I go through phases where I just can't get enough of some particular motorcycle. Recently it's been late 40's Brit Scramblers.

Dealer Decals

I'm such a sucker for these. The funny part for my whole life the first thing I did after bringing home a new bicycle/motorcycle/car is strip all the dealer advertising stuff off.