Posted on 04/12/2021 9:53:26 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
There are a few things Tom Cotter like to do the old-fashioned way, and finding vintage iron by doing his own footwork is one of them. However, the occasional tip comes through that he can’t ignore. In this case, it’s a call from Steve Davis who has a 365-foot long chicken coop that is no longer used for poultry. Instead, the structure packs all manner of vintage horsepower, of both the two- and the four-wheeled variety.
The property might look familiar to long-time Barn Find Hunter viewers, because Tom first visited back in 2017. There weren’t enough hours in the day to investigate the vehicles in all 12 of Steve’s buildings, so Tom decided to return and take a more focused approach. This hunt is all about two-wheeled vehicles, and the stash is epic.
The starting point is a lineup of 1960s Hondas, which for Steve represents the literal starting point of his collection. In his youth, he borrowed some money from his father and fixed up a few Honda 50s. Soon, Steve realized he was never going to get rid of anything, and the proverbial snowball started rolling. Today, he owns a full-on avalanche of timeless machines.
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What a waste. Horders collecting gems and letting the dust and rust destroy them. Open a freaken museum, clean them up and charge $10 a head!
There are some great videos/articles about finding a couple of 52 Vincent Black Lightnings in barns in the UK & restoring to function and the live sound track testing. At that time the fastest in the world.
And... the subject of a song structured around a modern day “highwayman” who romances a young lady, and in dying gives her the keys... it is a modern classic written by Richard Thompson (a real leftie sufi muzzie, but the version done here- by bluegrass legend Del McCrory OWNS the Americanized version. “Red hair and black leather my favourite colour scheme” Del nails the story and the delivery):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7uyG6RrBDE
As a kid I was brought up just around the corner from the Vincent factory. On a good day, my dad would let me stop and look at the bikes in the window of George Brown’s motorcycle shop, some of his own Vincent conversions, racers and record-breakers holding centre of the display.
Great memory - and shared with your dad!
Thanks.
I’d never heard that before.
You might like the song-— from Brit Richard Thompson—posted in post #4 just above your last on this thread.
The English lyric changed to Knoxville was.. “And down to Box Hill they did riiiiiide”
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