Thursday, February 21, 2008

A little more on my position re: bike & car building

To continue... Those great old guys (my Dad included) who taught us all the cool-assed tricks, had it right. It doesn't matter what name is on it, so long as you could take what was available to you and make it better than it was. All you have to do is look at the great hot rods of that era to see my point. Our Dads and Grandads would buy a cheap car and put a small amount of money and alot of time into it...the cars that were the cheapest for them were the literally miles and miles of old Ford Model A's lying around. Same goes for motorcycles...old Harley D's in the 7o's were kinda the same story...Triumph too.

Go to a car show today and some get it, some don't. They would rather shell out 20 Grand for an old rusty shell of a car than take what's down the street for a couple hundered bucks. I hear it all the time, why build a YAMAHA??!! Because it's cheap and available...I think my old Dad would be proud.

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