Vehicles

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	This was our first car, a 1969 Austin America. $1690.00, brand new.
	The Sportster as it was when I got it. I drove it that way for a couple of years. The photo border says it was printed in 1973, likely taken in that summer about the time I bought the bike. The Chevy was a '55 Bel Air, 2 door sedan, 6 banger and a power flush transmission.. The doorpost on the driver's side had been caved in by a guy smacking it with a forklift he was towing. And Tiger was Tiger.
	1973 International Travelall. Solar was owned by IH when I worked there and, as an employee, I was entitled to buy their vehicles at dealer cost (25% off list price). I ordered this in the summer of 1972. I took that thing to more places in the hills than all the other cars I ever owned.
Filename: 64-Corvair	1964 Corvair Monza, affectionately called the Monza-lac (cf. Cadillac). Chuck messed up his knee on a motocross bike and I went looking for a car with an automatic transmission, as we had none in the family. A neighbor of one of the guys I worked with at Solar sold this to me for $150. Ran great. After Chuck healed I drove it for a while. It was a great car and lots of fun to drive but had a tendency to swap ends if you hit the brakes hard and turned the wheel a bit.
	1970 Sportster after I "customized" it.
	1966 Harley Davidson "Sprint" - 250cc single cylinder. I rode this from IB to Solar up on Ruffin Rd for more than a year. I would drive up I-5 to what is now I-15, then up to Kearney Mesa. One afternoon on my way to work (swing shift), as I was making the turn onto 15, I heard a round wiz past my head. Nothing else sounds like a bullet.
	1960 Austin Healey Sprite. Could have been a lot of fun but someone had stuck a Morris Minor engine in the car. This engine had a red line of around 5000 RPM - it didn't ahve cam bearings, the cam just ran in the block. In the Sprite, whose tachometer showed a 6500 RPM red line, the engine overheated and was junk. I didn't realize any of this when I bought the car, and eventually wound up selling the non-running car for parts. Circa 1973
	My 1948 Harley Davidson FL as it was purchased with an aftermarket rigid frame and 8" extended front forks.
	1956 Swingarm Frame (first year of the swing arm frame and the lowest seat position of any swingarm frame) 1974 FX disk brake swingarm and disk brake forks. 510x18 front tire, 510x18 rear Original Indian speedometer, US GI Harley 45 ignition switch, 1957 gas tanks, a pair of NOS white grips, with floor boards, mousetrap, rachet lid, left grip spark retard, Gilmer belt primary drive.
	The speedometer I put on my 48 Harley. Neither Harley or Indian made their own speedometers. They were probably made by Stewart Warner.
	Margie's 1978 Mazda GLC (Great Little Car).
	I bought this car from Brian after I sold my 1973 Travelall, and later sold it to Liz Alvarez, while I was dating her.