Benilli works racer

Most likely the coolest things you will ever see with 50cc.  A Benilli works racer!

Josh's Honda CB Cafe

Josh brought his CB to me last year.  I bobbed up the fenders, both front and rear.  Helped him rebuild the forks, added the fork boots and a clubman bars.  I got a really cool Ossa taillight that I fabbed up a taillight  and plate mount.  He wanted Uni filters on it so naturally it needed some tuning.  I think it looked better with the stock air boxes.   I tried to give it a nice traditional look.  He needs to get some reverse cones for it, the mufflers he has are ugly.  After I retimed it and tuned it the bike runs great.  The best its ran in years!  These 360s' are nimble and when properly tuned the bike is pretty fast.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1886147985/ron-finch-thats-all-you-get-documentary?ref=email
Local Film maker has made a Doc on Ron.  Go to Kickstarter and donate a $1!

Tucker #46

When I worked for Mark at Nostalgic Motoring, we worked on alot of exotics.  One of the coolest was the Tucker #46.  Mark is a Tucker nut.  He owned at one time the best restored Tucker out there.  Tucker #46 was sold as rolling chassis never finished from the factory.   The man who bought it from the Tucker auction had a Olds drive train put under it.   The second owner bought it and happened to own a  Mercury dealership so he had his body shop put a Mercury drive train and chassis under it. When the current owner bought the car him & Mark thought it would be best to put the car back as a Tucker.  So Mark sold him most the parts and put him in touch with RM auctions to do the full restoration.  Our job was to remove the Mercury chassis and make it drivable so it can be displayed next to the car when it is fully restored.  This is not a cheap restoration but seeing one just sold for 2.6 million the 200,000+ its going to cost is worth it.

A.M.I / Wyotech

Good to see Kurt Heinrich still teaching at Wyotech in Daytona.  When I went there in 2004 it was known as A.M.I.  It was a beat up old hotel that the owner had let fall into horrible disrepair.  In that  same year it was bought by Wyotech.   With in a year the campus had moved into a new beautiful building.  I went through the Harley program and learned alot from Kurt.  The man knows his Harley's!  He has a 69 900 stroker sportster that will eat any big twin!The funny thing was I was riding a Triumph and till this day I wrench on more Triumphs then Harleys.

32 Ford

  I worked at a now closed hot rod shop a while ago and we built this car.   The 32 came from a border town across from the tip of Texas.  It was a rolling chassis covered in oil when it showed up to the shop.  The guy who sold it to us told us said that it was the president of Mexico's  car and that at one point it was given to his son who raced it.  Though its a good story there is no proof that the president of mexico owned this car.  The only true thing is that the car was raced at some point.  It has a modified back window and a 37 cross member in it.  When we gave the car a bath is showed 3 layers of different paint jobs.  When we saw this Bobby ( a con artist who was running the shop, more like robbing the shop) decided that we would leave it the way it is.  I wanted to repaint it the purple that was showing through.  We installed a later flathead engine, a top loader trans that we bought from Tony Teirney( Poncho Teirney's nephew)and a quick change rear.  He also worked on assembling the car.  We had Jeff Shea ( Wholeshot Tattoo) letter and number the car.  He gave the numbers and lettering a patina look to go with the look of the car.  The funny thing is that every buyer of the car thinks its the real deal.  Because of the lettering people really think this car was raced in Tijuana.  I doubt the car ever seen Tijuana.  The lettering on the trunk lid came from a old water decal that Bobby had bought off ebay.  Well the shop took a bad turn and I left before the car was totally finished.  Bobby's con game drove me away.  When the con was up and Bobby was busted, I was asked to  come back to finish the car.  By that time no one who started building the car was there to finish the car.  When I was gone Bobby hired Jeff to work in the shop little did he know he was being conned to.  Mark the real owner of everything and the one who was being conned out of all the coin, shut the shop down and sent everything to auction.  The real shame is that the car has been sold off a few times with a b.s story and the ones who built it got no credit.

Andersons cast pegs

I love cast pegs I  enjoy buying a set.  I won't pay a arm and a leg because it says Anderson though. Really, can you tell the difference.  One of these is not a Anderson.