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Don’t have a scanner but will try and scan a few using someone else’s. Watch this space. Not too sure what to show though.
I’ll put a few of the SEMA show, some Sprint Car racing ones, a few gorgeous riding roads, that’ll do to start with.I only got a digital camera this year, but I don’t think they were out in 1977 anyway!
I do have quite a few normal prints, could they be scanned somehow onto here? Some are damn old though and the quality will be poor I would think.
The work I did over there was mainly to support a long-standing (English) friend who had a growing t-shirt business from 1977 to 1991, which was doing really well all those years, but finally he sold out to a huge ‘name’ for lotsa-lotsa-lotsa dollars.
Wise man. He retired at 34. (Drives an Enzo and rides a 999R, the bike dripping with carbon bits and producing 150 bhp at the rear wheel, an incredible achievement for a road-going twin-cylinder engine).
He is also a brilliant rider. He lapped Laguna Seca 3.2 seconds quicker than me and only 2 seconds slower than Doug Polen, the WSB champion of whenever it was. (All times done on same bike, same day).
I also travelled and worked with ‘The world of Outlaws’, a sprint car series and a type of racing I have always loved. (Try putting a tuned V8 sideways at 140mph, it’s scary, I know because I have tried it).Get over there Gix and hire a bike. Go to California in April, May, September or October, when the temperatures are nice but not too hot. July and August can be torture. In JUly, 1985 it was 100 degrees at midnight in the garden and almost 115 by mid-day. We also had a forest fire on our doorstep for a week, which wasn’t much fun.
Funny experiences? Erm, not really.
I’ll list what I think of as it gets recalled!Seeing the prototype Plymouth Prowler for the first time with it’s 20″ wheels, the first car with wide 20s ever as standard.
Seeing the prototype Chrysler PT cruiser.One-off mentalist creations with 2, 4, or even 6 wheels have often been on show.
Right then, fire away the questions! I LOVE USA and am always going there. (New York over Xmas this year). It’s my second home, I feel.
I have been to USA 14 times to date. I was there for 2 years prior to 1979, took a 4-month holiday in 1993 and 1996 and also stayed 3 months in 2000. I have attended the SEMA show 5 times, twice as part of a trade stand.
The show is huge and takes about 3 days to see properly. Held next door (almost) to The Hilton, where the final night dinner is held. The 2 times I went there I was one of 3000 people dining. 300 tables of 10 and gawd knows how many waitresses.
NICE in more ways than one !!!!
Sorry, just to make it clear, that i have never ridden a Tomahawk.
I have though, gotten to drive a lot of specialist cars and i have ridden a lot of strange bikes because when i lived in California i was often involved with the S.E.M.A. (trade only) motor show, held each November in Las Vegas. That place sees the latest, greatest and most futuristic wheeld devices on Earth and it was alwyas fun to be behind the scenes at S.E.M.A.“As car engines go that is pretty small”.
Erm, no it isn’t!How can 8229cc be considered small as car engines go? If you honestly think that, then tell me say, 10 production car engines which are bigger in capacity than that. I am very interested in what you can come up with.
My current car, a 2005, is 5967cc V8 and that is pretty big in itself!I have just done a Google search for the Tomahawk and it is described as merely ‘rolling sculpture’ on many pages and even the company admit it is not street legal.
The 502 has a BIG BLOCK engine, Gix, not a small block. The 502 is the cubic inches (as well as the power, as it happens).
The Tomahawk was hopeless when tried as a road bike and was not sold to the public for highway use as far as i am aware.
