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I've got an ammo can like that... military surplus is great for making improvised weather proof storage. Kim came across this while on his ride across the USA, stopping by a custom leather place for a repair to his gloves https://mz-across-usa.blogspot.com/2018/05/las-vegas.html

The Harley needed the help, and the Crocker was the only motorcycle with a clear back tire not protected by a rear full fender Photo by Bob Stokstad, who makes articles for motorcycle magazines:  https://www.cycleworld.com/2010/10/01/pebble-beach-concours-delegance-special-feature#page-15

What a great way to make a living, take some mini race cars on the road, race in city by city, and have a lot of fun These miniature race cars were powered by Harley Davidson F-head V-twins built in the mid-teens and given the name “baby cars”. The cars were built with the help of Dudley Perkins of the Dudley Perkins Company, a San Francisco Harley-Davidson dealership. The left and center photos above show the workshop where the racers were assembled by Smith and his crew in a shop located at 220 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. Art Smith at the young age of 15 was quite the dare devil, and spent most of his youth as a stunt pilot. Art’s skill as a pilot made him a popular attraction at state fairs and similar events around the country in a time when seeing a plane was something quite unusual.  The first years he spent touring around the U.S. brought him plenty of fame and fortune, allowing him to purchase five baby cars.  The baby cars became part of his act. He would race...

When 26-year-old Effie Hotchkiss set off from her home in Brooklyn, New York, in May 1915 for the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, on her 3-speed Harley-Davidson, she was bound to raise a few eyebrows—even if she hadn’t stuffed her 52-year-old mother Avis in a sidecar. Effie was first and foremost a motorcycle fanatic tired of her banking clerical job on Wall Street and eager to see the world, she would recount in an unpublished memoir written some 25 years later. In the summer of 1914 Effie and her siblings acquired equal shares of their father’s estate, she knew exactly what to do with hers: buy a new Harley-Davidson and head for California. She had a sidecar attached to her motocycle, loaded it with her mom, and supplies, and headed for California They headed up the Hudson valley to Albany, turning west toward Buffalo, then on to Chicago, averaging 150 miles a day. They drew large crowds of curious onlookers wherever they stopped. They would typically rent rooms from ...

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