Good story, keep it coming. I remember one year at Indy when Danny was there and he was getting ready to fire his singe fuel Sportster in the pits. Every body was gathered around watching, they were using those rollers you put under the rear wheels of a car or truck. Danny was on the bike and they spun up the rear wheel and he let the clutch out and boom, blew him clear off the bike. They forgot to take that rubber ball out of the S&S Carburetor.
I was thinking you were there when that happened.
The first time Leo showed up at Irwindale Raceway he was driving that Thunderbird, he had both bikes on an open air trailer with a canvas tied around them, he had what he called his lay down bike and a street class bike. He won Top Fuel and the class he enter for the other bike that night, and the next weekend at Lions was where he demonstrated the standing burn out holding the bike back with his legs in front of the rear pegs. At that time he was running that Linkert with an extended float bowl, after seeing those was when I changed to the same. He helped me get started with that Carburetor, gave me some hints on what to do.
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