Barn Find Garbage Wagon

This bike is not really a secret. It's been on the local craigslist for a very long time.  If there are pictures in the ad, they are pretty much terrible and the asking price is on the high side of perfect.  I haven't been in the market for a hack rig, so I never called.  However, my internet friend Bruce from Nebraska was really interested and asked me to go and check it out.  I know why the ad pictures are so bad. The bike has been in a dark warehouse since about 1994, I think.  That was the last tag on it.

Here's the sidecar.


That's actually the seat for it sitting in the sidecar. Blue velour, yo.


All duded out even a side mirror for the hack passenger to use.





Lots of bumpers. Safety first I guess.


I haven't seen all this twisted rod stuff before.


The dude straight bought the full catalog's worth of the stuff though.











More bumpers.











Breaker ONE-NINE, breaker ONE-NINE!


This was the deal breaker. Bruce was told that the frame numbers for a 1971 should be on a boss on the frame leg not the neck. I don't know. I don't much about stock.















AMA.


What do you call this style of paint? Fishscale, maybe?



 

Bruce didn't buy it, but he sent me a very awesome care package and I got to see a crazy old bike on a Sunday afternoon.