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