| Growing up on a farm ,I didn't really get | | | | household interior paint and it really looked |
| into the ball and stick games the kids in | | | | bad but It was an Indian Motorcycle. I pulled |
| town played ;other than football and track | | | | out the spark plugs and filled the cylinders |
| the only sports I really cared about involved | | | | with diesel fuel and let it set. In a couple |
| the internal combustion engine .When other | | | | of days I put it in gear and with the |
| kids my age were reading Inside Baseball I | | | | sparkplugs still out I rocked it backward and |
| was devouring Hot Rod, Motor Trend, and | | | | the engine broke loose. Now I could use the |
| Motors manuals, Learning what makes cars and | | | | kick starter and I checked to se if I could |
| motorcycles run. One of my friends grandpa | | | | get spark and I could so I had new spark |
| restored old cars as a hobby ;and noticed my | | | | plugs and put them in and with fresh gas I |
| interest so one afternoon he pulled an old | | | | tried and tried but could only get it to pop. |
| buck rake( Abuckrake was a model A Ford that | | | | |
| they had taken the body off of ,and made it | | | | The next Saturday Nickie came over to see how |
| into kind of a tractor)into my parents | | | | I was coming and I jumped on the kick starter |
| driveway and said if it was alright with them | | | | and It popped and Nickie got all excited |
| he would just give it to me to tinker with | | | | ."lets pull it with my car" he said So I |
| since it had just been sitting out in a | | | | proceeded to get a rope, tied my end to the |
| pasture for years and didn't run he thought | | | | bumper hitch of Nickies Chevelle and handed |
| it would give me some good experience. Well | | | | the other end to Nickie.Well we got all |
| when my friends parents came over to pick | | | | straight so that I could pull him straight |
| them up that evening they found us out in the | | | | down the street and we were ready .----These |
| pasture sitting on buckets on that ole buck | | | | old Indians were a lot like the old Harley 74 |
| rake just flying back and forth across the | | | | In that they had what people called a suicide |
| pasture. I had got it running and we were | | | | clutch as the clutch was down at your foot |
| just trying it out. Needless to say Gramps | | | | and the shifter was next to the tank But on |
| came over the next morning and the buck rake | | | | the opposite side than that of a Harley for |
| was gone. So that's how things got started, I | | | | some unknown reason. |
| had the reputation that I could get anything | | | | |
| running And so enters Nicky Hovie; | | | | ---So I eased out on the clutch of the |
| | | | Chevelle,the rope became taunt, and down the |
| Nickie hovie had a real nice sixty three | | | | street we went. As we gained speed Nickie |
| chevelle convertible Yellow,Black interior | | | | stomped on the clutch on the ole Indian and I |
| 327 4 spd ,nice car .Well he drove in and | | | | heard bap---bap-bap-varoom as Nickie roared |
| said he was given an old motorcycle and the | | | | past with a huge smile on his face. Un be |
| motor was froze up and wondered if I thought | | | | known to me Nickie had foolishly tied the |
| I might want to try to get it running for | | | | rope onto the handlebars of the motorcycle. |
| him. I said sure thing ,so the next day he | | | | As you can guess when Nickie came to the end |
| brought it over and we put it in my parents | | | | of his rope things progressively got worse. |
| garage. Some one had painted it White with | | | | |