Matt has a barn like shop filled to the brim with super cool stuff, he pulls up in a '60's 3/4 ton chevy and lets us in. he has a collection of pre '60's schwinn's, a '66 Z16 el camino, a cushman scooter, the biggest lathe i have ever seen, possibly the coolest collection of junk i have seen in the coolest building i have been in. i got a ton of cool stuff, super nice set of 1950 heads, and the things i mentioned before, 7" pre unit front wheel, bates light, pan drag pipes, lots of bits and bobs. Matt is building a '65 pan with 2007 indian sheet metal, he's running a triumph hunt mag off the generator ear and running the generator off of the drive chain like an indian, along with a side car to top it all off. very interesting, excited to see what it will look like when finished.
if i remember correctly, '35, '38, '57, '62, '47, '27
the only one he'd part with was the '57, might be back for it one day...
the bicycle i bought, its a zenith, made by ccm i think?
neat seat
matt built this bike out of turn of early teens bicycle parts in tribute to .. joe...something, the name escapes me, matt said he was the first guy to put a v twin on a bike in 1903, and put a v8 on a bike and raced it on bonneville salt flats. i can't say that any of that is correct, thats just what i remember him saying, i probably got a lot of facts wrong.
there were '30's era i believe, don't quote me on that though i am not a bicycle expert by any means.
i wish i took more photos.
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