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revjimk (Offline)
  #1 3/15/24 1:29 AM
Did anyone else catch Kevin Olson's collection on American Pickers? His kids are letting go of some of his stuff.. pretty interesting
And they're keeping a lot too
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kb78 (Offline)
  #2 3/15/24 7:03 AM
I went to watch it and found that I was a victim of modern streaming platforms, I do not have that channel, I will find it somewhere soon.
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TQ29m (Offline)
  #3 3/15/24 9:07 AM
Yes, I happened on to it on my Dish,lots of things, guess he was saving it for the kids ,brought back memories, good ones from the good days, had a neighbor kid who bought a new Vincent motorcycle about 1974,nice but noisy, he was a big kid and could handle it, ran karts in his home state back in the day, can't imagine how people collected all their stuff ,guess I must have had my mind to the grindstone

"Being old, isn't half as much fun, as getting there"! Ole Robert I!
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ronmil (Offline)
  #4 3/15/24 11:13 AM
I have quit watching pickers, but I saw the episode was about a famous race card driver, so I watched.
Very interesting. Quite a collection.

Ron Miller
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Chief Wahoo (Offline)
  #5 3/15/24 11:38 AM
One of his helmets had his blood type on the back. Was that common back then for racers to do?

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CRA91 (Offline)
  #6 3/15/24 12:24 PM
Yes back in the day a lot of drivers would have it on their helmet and uniform.

Terry James Jr.
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TQ29m (Offline)
  #7 3/15/24 1:35 PM
If I remember correctly, Mike bought a hat for a hundred and a Hinchman dirt track suit for five hundred, and offered 40k for the Vincent motorcycle, and 28 hundred for the Kawasaki, but was declined on both, I have some Hinchman dirt track suits from that era, I might part with! Lol

"Being old, isn't half as much fun, as getting there"! Ole Robert I!
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jdull99 (Offline)
  #8 3/15/24 6:33 PM
Originally Posted by TQ29m:
If I remember correctly, Mike bought a hat for a hundred and a Hinchman dirt track suit for five hundred, and offered 40k for the Vincent motorcycle, and 28 hundred for the Kawasaki, but was declined on both, I have some Hinchman dirt track suits from that era, I might part with! Lol
30 on the vincent and I gathered the Kaw sold...

Jason Dull
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Frank Reiner (Offline)
  #9 3/15/24 8:39 PM
Originally Posted by TQ29m:
Yes, I happened on to it on my Dish,lots of things, guess he was saving it for the kids ,brought back memories, good ones from the good days, had a neighbor kid who bought a new Vincent motorcycle about 1974,nice but noisy, he was a big kid and could handle it, ran karts in his home state back in the day, can't imagine how people collected all their stuff ,guess I must have had my mind to the grindstone
The last motorcycle produced by Vincent was in 1955.
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