Miss brittney prepping the Chino bike for the Eiteljorg Museum in Indy

About a month or so ago we got a call asking us if we would loan the Chino bobber to the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis for six months. My dad said it was no problem. We put together the chino bobber recreation a couple years ago for a show in sturgis, It was based around my dad's 53 panhead with some dulled down parts. It had a cool superior muffler, wla bags and a 49 and 50 rear fender. We never fired the bike up in that configuration. After the show, we put the pepper red sheet metal on it and the backwards facing seat so my dad could haul Mike Lichter across the country on the cannonball run.

This was and is the perfect project for miss Brittney to take on. Here is a picture of the bike about half done.

Here she is taking off the goo gaw stuff.

She found this butterfly inside of the left tank.

Tanks are off

Here she is putting the 48 to 50 tanks on the bike. There are still a few things left to do on the project, but it should be done in about an hours worth of work. Good job Brittney.

New Bobber

Brittney and I went to Sturgis to pick up our new bobber. It was bobbed in 1955 or 56 in southern LA California We can trace the bike back forty years and it has not run in that time.

The bike is mainly 38 parts with a few updated pieces. Check out the cool paint job on the late 38 oil tank.

The exhaust is so neat on this bike. I will try to make a similar one for the right side. IT has an awesome aluminum plate to cover the dash cut out.

The clutch pedal is lee styled before lee was around. It is a 45" pedal that is brazed to a normal big twin section.

My heart skipped a beat when we pulled the battery top off and saw the original 47 to late 50s battery. This is so cool!

Early quick throttle

check out the right peg. IT is just the foot board mount with some tape wrapped around it.



what a cool front fender and classy spacers.

the front cylinder has a 42 and later air cooled plug in it and the rear cylinder just had some wadded up tissue in it. Check out the cool spark plug wires.

The bike sat on a cart with the wheels off of it forever. The tail lights are super neat as well. I would love to pin down some history on this bike.