1964 Homecoming Queen of Pasadena - Marlene Griffin

Homecoming queen of Pasadena, California for 1964 was 19 year old Marlene Griffin. Miss Griffin is an avid motorcycle enthusiast. She's shown here on a Triumph Bonneville.

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1968 Viewfinders Grand Prix

Movie Stuntmen host one of the best events we've ever attended! One of the more active competition clubs in Southern California is a group known as the Viewfinders. The club takes its name from the fact that all of its members work in the motion picture industry. The majority of the membership is made up of stunt men...

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1952 Mustang Breaks Century Mark

Achievement rewards five year efforts of U.S. manufacturer.

Top Photo: Correcting a little side-draft with his legs, Walt Fulton champions the Mustang cause at a 100 mph clip. 22 1/2 cubic inch, four-stroke single packs 6.4 to 1 compression ratio, uses a 1 1/8-inch Amal carburetor and an experimental head machined out of a solid block of dural for the speed run.

Bottom photo: Tuned by Howard Forrest, Mustang's chief engineer, the "Century job" is kept in shape by Bert Brundage and Joe Richards. Experimental cam, ball bearing mains and ball wheel bearings contribute to speed. Standard oiling system handles extra revs. 4.00 x 12-inch, 4-ply Goodyear tires are mounted on wheels made up from Kelsey-Hayes rims. No brakes of any description are used, and rear sprocket is mounted on an aluminum spool. Magneto is standard Mustang with lighting coils removed. Stewart-Warner tach is suspended from large circular ring on shock-absorbing coil springs.

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1952 Article: South Africa, Motorcycle Paradise

Motorcycle Sport in South Africa has come a long way since the days when the speed fiends tore down the straightaways at around the forty mile an hour mark, when one year the famous 403 mile road race from Durban to Johannesburg was run in a raging snowstorm. Today, the sport embraces every kind of competition by the clubs that stretch from the Cape in the South through barren desert-like Karoo to the Golden City of Johannesburg and the Capital of the Union of South Africa, Pretoria, over 1000 miles away to the North...

Pictured: Bobby Quick, one of the youngest speedway riders in the world at age of 5 years, 8 months; Rudy Allison winning the 1952 Nigel 100 on a "Featherbed" Norton. It has bettered 125 mph.

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1969 Nazareth: first duel of the 750s

Who would win now that AMA rules okayed 750cc ohv engines and rear brakes? Said Freddie Nix, "It's about my turn." ...People ordinarily wouldn't go a long way to see a race in a little town in Pennsylvania Dutch country called Nazareth. Not in a season with 28 nationals. Not when less than half a dozen had been run and the championship points race hadn't even begun to get hot. Not unless Nazareth had something special to offer...Nazareth promised the first real confrontation between AMA big-bore flattrackers...

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1969 Cheney Victor - Eric Cheney - Why competition kit bikes are growing up.

Several years ago, when the Brothers Rickman were making pieces like alloy engine plates and exhaust pipes, Eric Cheney was building special frames for BSA and Norton engines. As production frames just weren't good enough to compete with the Litos, Gileras, and FN's then running, Eric was building and racing his own frames. He rode them in those highly competitive European motocross races of the late fifties against such legendary men as Les Archer and Bill Nilsson...

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1972 United States Map of Motorcycle State Laws

What you need to know before you go riding. It's no fun going on any kind of trip and getting curbed by the police. The best way is to get straight with each state's requirements before you leave home. The chart details each state's legal requirements. The information is current as of January 1972.

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