Anybody Collect Motorcycles?
I have 1981 Honda CT70 (Trail 70), a 1969 Honda Z50 (missing parts) and a 1941 scratch built aluminum motorcycle my Grandfather built. He was working at a washing machine factory that converted to making DC-3 parts during the war. He strapped a Johnson Ironhorse washing machine motor to a homemade riveted aluminum frame. It might just be the first aluminum motorcycle ever built?
He copied the look of his brother inlaw's 1928 Grindlay-Peerless, which he coveted but couldn't afford one of his own so he built one.
BW photo is my grandfather with my mother, circa about 1944.
Other photos are me.
I have 1981 Honda CT70 (Trail 70), a 1969 Honda Z50 (missing parts) and a 1941 scratch built aluminum motorcycle my Grandfather built. He was working at a washing machine factory that converted to making DC-3 parts during the war. He strapped a Johnson Ironhorse washing machine motor to a homemade riveted aluminum frame. It might just be the first aluminum motorcycle ever built?
He copied the look of his brother inlaw's 1928 Grindlay-Peerless, which he coveted but couldn't afford one of his own so he built one.
BW photo is my grandfather with my mother, circa about 1944.
Other photos are me.
