| Growing up on a farm ,I didn't really get | | | | one had painted it White with household |
| into the ball and stick games the kids in | | | | interior paint and it really looked bad but |
| town played ;other than football and track | | | | It was an Indian Motorcycle. I pulled out the |
| the only sports I really cared about involved | | | | spark plugs and filled the cylinders with |
| the internal combustion engine .When other | | | | diesel fuel and let it set. In a couple of |
| kids my age were reading Inside Baseball I | | | | days I put it in gear and with the sparkplugs |
| was devouring Hot Rod, Motor Trend, and | | | | still out I rocked it backward and the engine |
| Motors manuals, Learning what makes cars and | | | | broke loose. Now I could use the kick starter |
| motorcycles run. One of my friends grandpa | | | | and I checked to se if I could get spark and |
| restored old cars as a hobby ;and noticed my | | | | I could so I had new spark plugs and put them |
| interest so one afternoon he pulled an old | | | | in and with fresh gas I tried and tried but |
| buck rake( Abuckrake was a model A Ford that | | | | could only get it to pop. The next Saturday |
| they had taken the body off of ,and made it | | | | Nickie came over to see how I was coming and |
| into kind of a tractor)into my parents | | | | I jumped on the kick starter and It popped |
| driveway and said if it was alright with them | | | | and Nickie got all excited ."lets pull it |
| he would just give it to me to tinker with | | | | with my car" he said So I proceeded to get a |
| since it had just been sitting out in a | | | | rope, tied my end to the bumper hitch of |
| pasture for years and didn't run he thought | | | | Nickies Chevelle and handed the other end to |
| it would give me some good experience. Well | | | | Nickie.Well we got all straight so that I |
| when my friends parents came over to pick | | | | could pull him straight down the street and |
| them up that evening they found us out in the | | | | we were ready .----These old Indians were a |
| pasture sitting on buckets on that ole buck | | | | lot like the old Harley 74 In that they had |
| rake just flying back and forth across the | | | | what people called a suicide clutch as the |
| pasture. I had got it running and we were | | | | clutch was down at your foot and the shifter |
| just trying it out. Needless to say Gramps | | | | was next to the tank But on the opposite side |
| came over the next morning and the buck rake | | | | than that of a Harley for some unknown |
| was gone. So that's how things got started, I | | | | reason. ---So I eased out on the clutch of |
| had the reputation that I could get anything | | | | the Chevelle,the rope became taunt, and down |
| running And so enters Nicky Hovie; Nickie | | | | the street we went. As we gained speed Nickie |
| hovie had a real nice sixty three chevelle | | | | stomped on the clutch on the ole Indian and I |
| convertible Yellow,Black interior 327 4 spd | | | | heard bap---bap-bap-varoom as Nickie roared |
| ,nice car .Well he drove in and said he was | | | | past with a huge smile on his face. Un be |
| given an old motorcycle and the motor was | | | | known to me Nickie had foolishly tied the |
| froze up and wondered if I thought I might | | | | rope onto the handlebars of the motorcycle. |
| want to try to get it running for him. I said | | | | As you can guess when Nickie came to the end |
| sure thing ,so the next day he brought it | | | | of his rope things progressively got worse. |
| over and we put it in my parents garage. Some | | | | |