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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
This photo is so cool on so many levels:
6) That is a really nice lookin' go cart; the kind Barcak and I used to dream about when we were growing up.
5) You've got the whole "cop pulls over kid on go cart" vibe going.
4) Nice Harley motorcycle photo.
3) Apparently taken in Dearborn, Michigan - which is of course where TomV hangs out (not far from where I'm sitting).
2) Requisite '57 Chevy in the background
and - the number one reason this photo is so cool -
1) The kid is wearing a helmet and the motorcycle cop isn't.
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Agreed on all points. I would add that I, too, dreamed of a go-cart like this one and when riding my bike always pretended it was a Harley (used to make a pretty good impression of a Harley at idle and going throgh the gears with my mouth). Then we figured out how to tie baloons on to the front forks and fender braces to let the spokes stroke them and dang if it didn't sound AWESOME...until one would pop and we'd pretend we just lost a cylinder and had to pull over! Man - did we have a bunch of fun as kids just jimmy-dicking around like that. We made choppers out of our bikes with an extra set of front forks, a banana seat, big tall sissy bar and ape-hanger handle bars. Mine had mirrors on both sides of the handle bars, a battery operated light and a speedometer. Saved my money and bought most of those accessories from the local Ace Hardware - he used to stock all that cool stuff.
Back on the photo - I think the cop needs an unfiltered Pall Mall or Camel between a couple fingers on his left hand with a little smoke rising to complete the look.
Remember in the back of Boys Life magazine they had ads for those mini-choppers? Basic mini-bike but with a raked front fork and ape hangers. Man I used to want one of those so bad!
BJ