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