{"id":296,"date":"2019-07-08T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2019-07-08T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:58:27","slug":"old-cars-old-bikes-old-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/07\/08\/old-cars-old-bikes-old-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Old cars, old bikes, old memories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello again, digital friends.\u00a0 My son Mike and I spent the last week or so going thru piles old motorcycles, old cars, and old memories.\u00a0 In the early 60’s, I sold my beloved 1953 Harley K Model to my brother-in-law so I could finance college.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That started Chuck on a lifetime of collecting.\u00a0 Sadly, he passed recently, and my sister asked us to help find good homes for all the stuff <\/em>in his collection.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can you find an Austin Healey 100-6, 2 Harley cruisers, 2 Harley K Models, 2 K Model frames, a Norton,\u00a0an\u00a0Aerial square 4,\u00a0some K Model side cases, a ladder and a rope to hoist things into the rafters?\u00a0 There were also a bunch more treasures stashed in the back yard and the attic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ULTIMATE EASTER EGG HUNT lasted several days.\u00a0 We found the fender and the tool case to my old bike in the attic (of the house not the garage) wedged between a heating duct and a roof joist.\u00a0 The gas tank was in the backyard, buried under a Harley Service Cycle\u2026. \u00a0a 45 cu. in. a flat head tricycle popular with <\/em>METER MAIDS, back in the day. <\/em>Once all the parts started to resemble motorcycles, we started to find titles and other paperwork in the most unlikely places. Chuck knew exactly where everything was, but he wasn’t around to tell us, so we had to search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most of the treasures have now found new homes.\u00a0 The Harley dealer in Modesto took a bunch.\u00a0 The president of the Bay Area Aerial Club took the Square Four, the Norton, and a small Italian bike re-branded RIVERSIDE, which was sold by Montgomery Wards (remember them?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think we have found most of the parts for my bike.\u00a0 We are going to register it in California so we can keep the cool old license plate.\u00a0 Say that number a couple a times,\u00a0 kinda fun.\u00a0 The faded paint is Candy Apple Tangerine.\u00a0 Customizer Joe Bailon invented candy apple red sometime in the 50\u2019s, and later offered a full spectrum of candy colors, including tangerine. \u00a0He lived just up the road in Hayward.\u00a0 Very Kool.\u00a0 Joe\u2019s gone but his paint is still available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a great trip back to the old days, but\nthe present calls.  Some soft summer\nnight, if you listen carefully, you may hear the unique sound of a flat head\nHarley, taking one more  cruise down old\nmemory lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello again, digital friends.\u00a0 My son Mike and I spent the last week or so going thru piles old motorcycles, old cars, and old memories.\u00a0 In the early 60’s, I sold my beloved 1953 Harley K Model to my brother-in-law so I could finance college.\u00a0\u00a0 That started Chuck on a lifetime of collecting.\u00a0 Sadly, he … Continue reading “Old cars, old bikes, old memories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gW0j-4M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}