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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #645 on: June 16, 2009, 12:16:01 AM »
What's the story behind that thing?
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #646 on: June 16, 2009, 12:30:58 AM »
He crashed.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #647 on: June 16, 2009, 01:05:56 AM »
Mike Kelly - PROUD owner of the V4F that powered the #1931 VGC to a 82.803 mph record in 2008!

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #648 on: June 16, 2009, 09:50:56 AM »
Jon McKibben was one of the nicect guys you would ever get to meet...God Rest His Soul............JD
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #649 on: June 16, 2009, 12:20:17 PM »
Freud, I have a magazine somewhere with a lot of info on the hawk effort.. sounds like Honda put quite a lot of effort into it.. but lost interest after the crash..

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #650 on: June 16, 2009, 01:55:12 PM »
I wrote the story of B'ville for CYCLE  MAGAZINE that year with absolutely no cooperation from Honda.

As I recall, Jon was a major influence in the design of the bike and he was also the driver. Honda approached it with their normal vigor and

when the accident happened it was devastating to them and their ego.

It had a pair of the new 750 engines with turbo charging. They should have had much more power than they needed for the speed that they

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #651 on: June 16, 2009, 01:58:59 PM »
I wrote the story of B'ville for CYCLE MAGAZINE  with absolutely

Someone wake Freud up..I think he fell asleep at the puter again.. :wink:

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #652 on: June 16, 2009, 02:04:34 PM »
Noonan hacked into my system and posted his version of my story.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #653 on: June 18, 2009, 07:36:48 PM »
Freud, I found it in Cycle Guide, I think 1972..
written by Bruce? Flanders.


 I think I may have another in maybe Custom Bike? a few years later..
 Not sure how much they ran that..

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #654 on: June 18, 2009, 11:43:44 PM »
The Honda Hawk never ran again after that run.

They removed it from sight.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #655 on: June 18, 2009, 11:45:29 PM »
This is where LYNDA earned respect and she has built on it ever since.

A lovely lady that we should smile at every tme we pass thru lands end.

We LOVE YOU, LYNDA.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #656 on: June 19, 2009, 10:50:59 AM »
 :-D  Yup!  We sure do! ( and your big dog too!)       Crow
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #657 on: June 19, 2009, 01:16:44 PM »
 :cry:  Aw Shucks, guys!!  See why I love all of you so much?!  :-D 

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« Reply #658 on: June 19, 2009, 09:47:40 PM »
 :-D :-D :-D Welcome home Lynda,  we missed ya!    Crow
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #659 on: June 29, 2009, 10:46:10 PM »
Do these qualify as old photos?  It's a repop for the movie.  Bert was smaller than Anthony Hopkins.