The vote is in!  TennesseeZ was voted as the favorite of the VBF membership.  I personally thought any of the contestants would have made great winners as all the bikes were sweet.  TennesseeZ is entitled to a FREE carburetor rebuild at any time during this calender year supplied by the site host, wiredgeorge Motorcycle Carburetors.

Long story...
Bike used to belong to a friend I served with in the Air Force a long time ago.  He bought it from the original owner who only had it for a couple months before getting orders to go overseas,  My friend bought the bike, rode it the last year he was in the Air Force and then rode it to college at WNC after he got out of the Air Force.  After collete, he rode it as he worked at Duke Power for a long time.  My friend put over 56K miles on the clock!!  At this point, the bike still runs but will need an engine overhaul soon.

Anyway, my friend parked it in 1994 and then he passed away unexpectedly in 2008.  His widow, whom I had also known all these years, called and asked me if I would take the bike and  get it running again as a tribute to my friend.   I took the project, but MAN,  it has been a huge project! Almost $6K dollars have been spent. This figure does not include the money I will be spending on rehabbing the engine.  But I made a promise to a widow of a very good friend, so it was definitely not a project done to make money.

The young man in  the picture with the finished bike is my cousins son.  My cousin and his son spent as much time on bringing "Jonah" ( Name we gave the bike) back as I did.

LOTS and LOTS of Labor and parts.  The "before" picture on the upper left shows the bike as we drug it out of the barn in North Carolina in 2008. It has taken 3 years (until 2011) of steady work to bring it back.

Regards
TennesseeZ    ED

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