Classics, celebs, and more…

Just a few more days until the Long Beach show, but I still have a few more photos to share from Phoenix, my phriends….

Let’s his the celebs first.   Well, not real celebs, but people who bear an uncanny resemblance to movie stars and race car drivers – take a look!

Check out this George Clooney lookalike getting some seat time on the RX-3….

This next fellow was pretty funny.   When he came over to our booth, I said “Wow, you look just like Richard Petty!”   He threw his hat on the ground and said “I am tired of hearing that!   I AM RICHARD PETTY!”  He was so emphatic that he actually had me going for a minute.

After “Richard” left, Jeff (the guy in the booth next door on the right side of the above photo) said maybe the guy really was Richard Petty.   Steve said he wasn’t.   I’m still wondering.

Here’s a shot of an old friend…it’s my buddy Leighton, a fellow KLRista who used to be the parts manager at Brown BMW…

You probably remember me writing about my buddy Bob Brown and that San Felipe trip a month or so ago.   Bob was the guy who stated that he felt a 250 was the perfect size motorcycle for real world adventure riding.   That blog is here.

All righty, then, on to some classic bikes.  The Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club put in a great appearance with a couple of bikes that really hit home for me.  I used to have a 1982 Honda CBX (an air-cooled straight six that Honda made from 1979 to 1982).   I loved that bike, and the VJMC had a nice one on display at the Phoenix show…

I love pearlescent white as a color on any vehicle, and it sure worked on that ’82 CBX.   I rode all over the Southwest on mine.   It was grand motorcycle (way ahead of its time), but it was time to get rid of it when Honda stopped stocking parts for it.

Another classic bike…a ’69 Honda 750…

I had a ’71 CB-750 in exactly those colors.   It was awesome.   A bike like the one you see above would sell for something like $15,000 today.   I paid $1,569 for mine in 1971.

Honda has a modern big four that evokes the memory of that original CB-750.   I think the modern one is an 1100.   It’s huge, but I like it…

The Phoenix show also had some real vintage iron.   Check this out…an original Vincent…

And here’s bike I had heard of but never actually seen until the Phoenix show…a single-cylinder Vincent!

And finally, an original, well-worn, appropriately patina-finished old Knucklehead Harley-Davidson…

Cool stuff indeed!

I think I have one more set of photos I want to share with you from Phoenix, and then it’s off to the Long Beach show for us.

Ride safe and keep watching the blog!