Hey Pork Pie, Have you been to the Barber Museum in Birmingham, Alabama?
If not the largest....certainly the second largest
zweirad museum in th world!!!!...............................
(I am somewhat prejudiced.......they have some of our "old" stuff)
10 years ago when I worked in Alabama it was only a 30 minutes drive to the Barber Museum in Birmingham.
They invite me to visit them. During my first visit we walked into the workshop. There was some parts lying around....my question was....Heh, where you got this old Don Vesco streamliner......the peoples jaw dropped down to knee.....
they was really surprised to get a guy in the place who not only saw what it was, also he knew who the builder/rider was.
I talked later to Don - he told me that he sold the racer to Barber to get some money for the Turbinator.
The Museum is a great place and there are a lot of beautiful bikes on display, also the way as the bikes are on display is well done. As I remember did Barber start to this time, to build a motorcycle race course in Birmingham, but I left Alabama before he start with this project. No idea if it was ever finished.
And to the size.....I think the Midland Motorcycle Museum in Coventry/Birmingham (England) is second behind Neckarsulm..
.....but they got the advantage that they got more show space. In Neckarsulm they got around 20 percent on display... the other are in storage and from time to time they replace some bikes in the museum.
