My first car!!! 1970 Camaro SS350

[motherchicken]

That's when you want a suicide shifter. Leave it in first and let your leg do all the work but if you are constantly stopping and having to steady the bike, a suicide setup would be a bitch. You would be throwing the shifter in and out of neutral all the time.

I believe the reason that's called a suicide shift is because you tend to put your foot down if the bike starts to lean. It leans to the left, you take your foot off the clutch pedal, your bike lurches forward and you get smacked by whatever happens to be passing by. I was sitting on an old shovelhead in my garage revving the engine with the bike in gear and the clutch pulled in and the clutch cable snaps. The bike skys, I let go and it took off across the street and took out some old wooden fence and a couple garbage cans . It was kind of a rat bike anyway and the owner was glad it didn't happen to him at a signal light. He patched it up, fixed the clutch cable and rode it for the rest of the year before the engine vibrated itself apart like those old scooters had a habit of.

[Momshell]

Nice....definitely a Long island thing here.....did you cruise DPA with it back in the day?.......lol

haha! It was definitely very LonGisland! Didn't live in Suffolk at the time - grew up in Glen Cove, so I cruised down to Pryble's beach, all of the parking lots and garages, etc. Also loved taking it to Jones Beach, field 5 I believe.

[motherchicken]

I wish I had been born a few years earlier. My brother had the coolest rides in the late sixties early seventies. A 51 Ford that would be considered a rat rod today. A 50 Merc slammed to the ground with lake pipes. Several 50 Plymouth businessmans coupes. One was a hi-boy gasser. A mid 60's Dodge Dart GT 273. 57 Chevy with a fiberglass tilt front end with the snorkel hood scoop. 327 with a single four barrel on a hi rise edelbrock manifold with the velocity stack air cleaner. Fenderwell headers, big fat back tires that he actually could spin the rims inside the tires if he got too much traction. 66 or 67 GTO 389 with a 4 speed. And several I have forgotten. And I doubt he ever paid more than 500 bucks for any of them.

[motherchicken]

Somebody here has a Lamborghini? Peter De Luise used to have a hi performance auto business in the Hi Desert of So Cal in the 80s. He had a Lambo that looked like a million dollar car but ran like shit. It might have been a Countach. Not very good advertizing in my opinion.