The Michigan Madman!!!

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Edited Date/Time 8/8/2019 11:48pm
We've all heard of the Michigan Mafia, well how many of you guys know about the Michigan Madman?

His bikes were featured on the History Channel American Pickers. He put a Chevrolet V8 engine in his bike at the tender age of 19 years old and would do a burnout for the length of the drag strip on the brink of near disaster! Woohoo





Story here:
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/05/22/ej-potter-t…
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cable 7/30/2019 2:47pm
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I thought this was going to be about john grewe.. 2nd to mike brown at 53 yrs old in 40 plus at lorettas today.
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Moto Obsessed 7/30/2019 2:53pm
7/30/2019 2:53pm
I'm confused, why doesn't it have knobbies?
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byke 7/30/2019 2:55pm
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That thing looks like it'd suck your nipples off if you leaned over it a little too much.
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Spudnut 7/30/2019 3:34pm
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byke wrote:
That thing looks like it'd suck your nipples off if you leaned over it a little too much.
That’s what my fiancé first said about me when we met
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motomike137 7/31/2019 3:41am
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Wow! I'd never heard of this guy. Basically strapped himself to a small block Chevy and sent it!
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Dirtydeeds 7/31/2019 6:52am
7/31/2019 6:52am
Shits nuts! Theres a company called boss hoss sellin these things to the public. My old neighbor had one. That thing rattled the house.
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SCAM124 7/31/2019 7:25am
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byke wrote:
That thing looks like it'd suck your nipples off if you leaned over it a little too much.
Spudnut wrote:
That’s what my fiancé first said about me when we met
Literally LOL'ed! hilarious.
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crowe176 7/31/2019 4:39pm
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cable wrote:
I thought this was going to be about john grewe.. 2nd to mike brown at 53 yrs old in 40 plus at lorettas today.
SAME GREWE is all things Michigan moto this week.
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JRT812 7/31/2019 6:15pm
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Dirtydeeds wrote:
Shits nuts! Theres a company called boss hoss sellin these things to the public. My old neighbor had one. That thing rattled the house.
Can’t even be the same thing. The boss hoss has to be governed so much to have a 350 on a bar stool. Probably all sound and no power
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deluxeman 8/1/2019 10:07am
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His brother was killed on a bike very similar to that one. The first versions were direct drive, you just pushed it off the stand to make it go. My dad saw him and his brother race a few times at Grattan back in the 60's when it was a dragstrip. Long before my time. He moved from bikes to tractor pulling. His stuff looked like garbage, he used old Allison aircraft engines, one of his tractors had 2 Allison's on it. EJ was a strange dude, pretty damn smart, but quite strange. He is a Mid Michigan legend.
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dadofagun 8/1/2019 6:02pm
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I showed this to my Dad who used to race Drags in the 60's. He saw him once at a local strip, he had taken a 57 Plymouth and installed an Allison Aircraft engine with a tugboat clutch in it. Said what little they spoke, Dad could tell the guy was very smart, and liked to think outside the box on virtually every aspect of anything. Wasn't afraid of going fast either......
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G-man 8/8/2019 11:47pm
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deluxeman wrote:
His brother was killed on a bike very similar to that one. The first versions were direct drive, you just pushed it off the stand to...
His brother was killed on a bike very similar to that one. The first versions were direct drive, you just pushed it off the stand to make it go. My dad saw him and his brother race a few times at Grattan back in the 60's when it was a dragstrip. Long before my time. He moved from bikes to tractor pulling. His stuff looked like garbage, he used old Allison aircraft engines, one of his tractors had 2 Allison's on it. EJ was a strange dude, pretty damn smart, but quite strange. He is a Mid Michigan legend.
Hahaha that's a great story man!

EJ definitely had the no-fear gene in his head! Woohoo



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G-man 8/8/2019 11:47pm
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dadofagun wrote:
I showed this to my Dad who used to race Drags in the 60's. He saw him once at a local strip, he had taken a...
I showed this to my Dad who used to race Drags in the 60's. He saw him once at a local strip, he had taken a 57 Plymouth and installed an Allison Aircraft engine with a tugboat clutch in it. Said what little they spoke, Dad could tell the guy was very smart, and liked to think outside the box on virtually every aspect of anything. Wasn't afraid of going fast either......
Hahaha Classic! Laughing

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