Show Us Your "Motorized" Pride And Joy

Jake Gathright · Post by **Jake Gathright** » 17 Jun 2015 12:09 pm

Those are a few of the toys I've built/modified to suit my taste. Hope you enjoy! All of the bikes pictured here were in stock cruiser form when I started with them. Here's a before/after of the V-Star 650 to give you an idea of what I do to them.

Lyle Dent · Post by **Lyle Dent** » 17 Jun 2015 2:23 pm

You and your dad sure make great mandolins!

Don Poland · Post by **Don Poland** » 28 Jun 2015 6:47 am

95 Harley 30th Anniversary Edition Fuel Injected Ultra Classic

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John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 28 Jun 2015 7:49 am

I really enjoy my old 72 Beetle

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 28 Jun 2015 8:18 am

Wow, John!

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 28 Jun 2015 8:57 am

Joachim Kettner wrote:Wow, John!

I know it's not a fancy ride like the ones above, but I've been driving Bugs for almost 50 years. Makes me feel good

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 28 Jun 2015 9:51 am

John, do you remember the older ones, with split windshields and inset headlights?

When I was a kid in England in the 40s/50s there had been no passenger cars built during the war years, because production had been turned over the military vehicles, so everyone was driving around in old cars, mostly pre-war. I remember there being a lot of the old VW Beetles around, which is surprising, if you think about it, in view of the fact that they must have been built in Germany and imported before hostilities broke out.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 28 Jun 2015 10:02 am

Alan and John,
in the early seventies, when we were still carefree, we decided to drive to England. That was around midnight, and me the driver, was the only one who was sober. We parked the Beetle, which is called "KÃ¤fer", in Ostende and took the ferry to Dover. When we returned to Belgium, it was still there and it brought us safely home.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 28 Jun 2015 10:35 am

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 28 Jun 2015 10:39 am

Stu, is that supposed to be some kind of Juke ? ðŸ˜Š

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 28 Jun 2015 12:42 pm

Rick,Yes...The only car I've ever owned that doesn't leak any fluids!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 28 Jun 2015 2:20 pm

Joachim Kettner wrote:Alan and John,
in the early seventies, when we were still carefree, we decided to drive to England. That was around midnight, and me the driver, was the only one who was sober. We parked the Beetle, which is called "KÃ¤fer", in Ostende and took the ferry to Dover. When we returned to Belgium, it was still there and it brought us safely home.

Joaquin, I did a similar thing about the same date (1977). I was living in England at the time, and my Nebraskan fiancÃ©e and I drove across Belgium, the Nederlands and Germany to Denmark, where we parked our open-topped MGB and took the ferry over to Sweden. A few days later we came back and drove the car via the Nederlands, Germany and France to England. But on our way through Germany the car started to splutter, until we were just struggling along the autobahn at about 20 kph, with everyone honking at us. I noticed a BMC Service Station, so we pulled in and left the car with them overnight, while we booked in at a hotel. The next morning the car was ready. Somehow water had gotten into the tank while we were parked in Amsterdam. They just drained the tank and replaced the petrol, and everything worked fine again. I shall never figure out how water got into the tank. It had a lock on the gas cap.