To get the whole story for the Manning Gulf streamliner I was today in the Neckarsulm Motorcycle Museum and talked with the curator.
Interested, to find out that when the streamliner was in Pleidelsheim (close to Besigheim), the bike was there only on display for a while....the museums owner was not really honest....and I was partically wrong, sorry.
Alright....the streamliner was owned by the late Henk Vink, a well known dragster rider from Netherland - he passed away after his birthday party...a little bit too much alcohol caught a heart attack.....
Anyway, a while before he passed away he took care that some of his famous racer moved over to the Neckarsulm Museum, the streamliner include - where the streamliner was most of the time in one of the basements - less than 50 percent of bikes the museum owns are on display (currently around 280) due to not enough space. During the time in Neckarsulm, it left the place for a while as a loan to a museum in the south of Germany on the Bodensee, also in the museum in Pleidelsheim. For the last months, the racer was in Neckarsulm, it was there on display, before it left for the restoration.
