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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mo_Gearhead
My first bike was a Corvette!
Photo (not my personal bike however) Mine was black.
Yes, I was a kid in 1958.
Wow, hadn't thought about that bike in years. It had 3 speeds. Not like new types with multiple sprockets and de-railers. It had an internal setup in the rear hub (almost like a differential?) Wierd setup.
Note $80 price tag! My mother put down $10 and they financed it (I paid with my paper route, weekly). |
That's the one! It was "the" bike for my grade school set....of course, many quickly stripped the fenders and other non essentials.  My clunky old Huffy didn't have a prayer of keeping up. I don't think Lance Armstrong could have kept up with the average Corvette rider if he'd been forced to ride a Huffy... 
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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