Double Norton

This is Warren Afflick from down under sitting on TC Christensen's Double Norton at Indy.

This picture was sent to me by Warren and he says he is the good looking one on the bike. That's TC on the right.

Drag Racing Film

Agreat Motorcycle Film. Featuring Vance + Hines Pro Stock Racing Team of 1980.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=4595820

Fuels in the Early Days

Frankie,

I believe the FUEL you are talking about was Alcohol. The first Fuels that I can recall was Alkie or Gasoline with water injection. I was at the first race that was at Pomona and there was a lot of bikes there, after all in the beginning they were the fastest thing on the track. That was some time in the early 50's. That's where I first watched the The Beast and The Brute Harley's run. The only Carb that was around at that time was that brass M48 Harley Carb and I know from experiance that it need a lot more work to run Nitro than they had then. Some of the guys made a manifold to fit there Harley's and was running a Flat Head Ford Two Throat Carb, it sit up straight like on the car. I ran Nitro in that Brass Harley Carb in 1957 when Clem Johnson and I raced as a team and you couldn't even start the bike on fuel, you had to start it on gas keep the thing hot and quickly change the jets and restart.

I know Richards was running nitro around 1954 in his Triumph, Johnson was riding it and that was at Pomona.

The Bonneville Man

Here's a pictures from John Noonan. His record holding bike of Bonneville and El Mirage fame.

Old For Sale Article

My friend Bazza found this and sent it to me. The caption is pretty interesting. Hard to read, "Murray estimates the value of his motorcycle is $4000". This had to be a long time ago. To bad you couldn't build that bike for that cost today, there would probably be a lot around.