Saturday, May 18, 2013

Sidecar Sunday



Kenny Roberts Frame



Cycle Magazine 1976
Kenny Roberts parlays his Flat track victories into commercial products. According to The Dan Rouit Museum gallery page Kenny Roberts, Sparky Edmonston and Jerry Griffith developed the frames.
http://vft.org/RouitMuseum/Gallery/ShortTrack2Stroke.html

Fins!


The Niagara Vapor Bath

Reader's Digest Association (Canada) Ltd.,  In Search of Canada.  Montreal, 1971.
Available in 1898 from the King-Jones Company of Toronto, Ontario.

Friday, May 17, 2013

No regrets


Destroyer Cassin Young in Drydock

On display and being repaired at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston.  The work was completed and on May 14 2013 returned to her position at Pier 1.

 

 
 
 
 

Smith & Wesson 1927

Life, 1927

Cool World War II Cover Art: Wings of Gold

T.E. Cruise, Wings of Gold.  The Aces.  Popular Library, 1988.  Illustration by Mark Skolsky

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Year 'round Tractor fun!

National Geographic Feb, 1960

Selling Bonnevilles in 1976


Last gasps of the dying British motorcycle industry.