1975 Kawasaki Z-1 "Driving Miss Katherine" Vintage Ad

...I've never seen anybody show up at a classy party riding a motorcycle. Jimmy - he drives for the McCormicks - he said it was hardly proper. But Roland scoffed, "Nonsense, man, that's a Z1." I asked him, "What's a Z-1?" "Maybe the finest touring bike ever made...4-stroke, 4-cylinder, 903cc engine, its prestige, world records and how money talks. Even Jimmy was impressed...

1975 Kawasaki Z-1 "Driving Miss Katherine" Vintage 2-Page Ad available at www.DadsVintageAds.com

1975 Dale Starr equipped Z-1 Kawasaki / David Aldana Daytona win

No bike could legally win the way our Z-1 did at Daytona. So they thought.

To run in the open class race at Daytona a bike must look stock, have stock displacement, and be street legal. So when a bike wins that race by performing like a full fledged GP bike, eyebrows are naturally going to be raised. That's what happened with our Dale-Starr equipped Z-1 Kawasaki, when David Aldana won at Daytona with a giant half a lap lead. "Impossible...", said one rider, and contested our bike, even after it had been torn down and certified legal by the AMA officials...

1975 Dale-Starr equipped Z-1 Kawasaki / David Aldana Daytona win Ad available at www.DadsVintageAds.com

1975 Kawasaki Z-1 Vintage Advertisement

1975 Kawasaki Z-1 Vintage Motorcycle Ad available at www.DadsVintageAds.com

Funny thing happened on Saturday afternoon. I rolled out my new Kawasaki Z-1 and four hamburgers burned up on the Stevenson's barbeque; the Brady's livingroom never got painted...

love the two birds sitting on the basketball hoop...








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