Surf's Up

 A few things seen recently during my travels around the web:

Mr. Norm of Grand Spaulding Dodge passed away recently - big, big player during the muscle car era. My brother from a different mother drove us up there one time while I was recovering from an injury received while working at a foundry - March or April 1970 (many of the events in my life are dated by the injury I was recovering from at the time). Grand Spaulding used to run some cool radio ads - " dyno timed and analyzed, carburetor calibrated, soda pop carbonated" or something along those lines. Not sure  exactly, it's been 50 years and several concussions later, after all.

Toyota - the official truck of terrorists. I thought this one was pretty funny. I don't suppose any of the automakers are trying to gain market share.

I had a set of Firestone Town & Country tires back in the day. They would indeed get you through the snow. I don't recall Firestone having all the other Firestone branded products. In fact, I don't think I ever saw a Firestone spark plug. There was a Firestone service center in town back then but I was only in the place a couple of times. Other than tires, I did all my own service work on my vehicles.

I'm leaning towards a scrambler rather than pure flat tracker with the SR500 now. I do have two rollers, however. One scrambler, one flat tracker. That's Jeff Smith in the photo - he was the Executive Director  of AHRMA when I was involved back then. Nice guy. World motocross champion and British trials champion.

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I finished the head for the engine stand but when I drug the rest of the stand out it was looking pretty shabby. I took the cup brush on the $9.99 Harbor Freight grinder and cleaned things up. I put a coat of paint on the bottom of it yesterday. I'll assemble it today, finish painting it and get a photo posted.