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To allow your sentimental attachments to material things that you don't even own from almost 50 years ago to cause problems in family relationships is fuckin sad.
Sorry, championship or no, no fuckin 50 year old bucket of bolts is going to come between me and anyone I remotely care about. If they were that important to you, come up with the cash to buy the things yourself, then you can sit in your sad house with them, reminiscing about the glories of eons past, before you were a rotten old bastard.
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Many years later I met him at "Rynos Ranch", and he seemed like a really solid, nice and humble person. This really sucks. However; there are 2 sides to every story and don't be so quick to throw 93 yo mom, or whoever made the sale, under the greedy bus (of course, unless you know that to be the case). What if she sold it out of desperation to pay the rent? Last I checked there are still people struggling to feed themselves, the cost of living continues to rise and not every elderly person has resources to compensate for this. As for the buyer, if he knew this was upsetting to Gary...I wouldn't consider him greedy because I'm assuming he paid a fair market value; he's just a dick, imo.
Terry Good on the Gary Jones' story.
Looks like I have to bring this post out again. When you accuse someone in public, you better have your facts straight. Slander and Defamation of Character are a very serious civil crime, everyone has civil rights.
Regarding the rumors of the sale of any Jones bikes or property to Terry Good: All property and bikes sold were the sole property of Don and Melinda Jones (Gary's parents). They sponsored Gary and DeWayne for their entire careers with bikes, parts and all expenses to the races. The equipment was theirs and in their possession for nearly 50 years. Don Jones and I were great friends for many years and had talked many times about having the entire Jones legacy preserved in a museum over 20 years ago. Don and his wife were in complete agreement with this. Twelve years ago Don Jones passed away leaving his wife Melinda in charge. As we grew closer to starting the museum it was time to transport the collection to Chicago. Most of it was Don's bikes, BSA Goldstar, a BSA desert racer, a couple of Tohatsu's (one was Don's father's) DeWayne's Honda a Maico etc. machinery from Jones motocross, and a couple of Yamaha's that were Yamaha's bikes not Joneses bikes. For all anybody knows the Yamaha's could have been ridden by DeWayne. Very little of anything was used by Gary. Just prior to the sale, three bikes, a Can-am, a Honda and an Ammex that were supposed to be included mysteriously disappeared. I wonder where they are. The family had several meetings about this and all were in attendance except Gary. He was invited but allegedly chose not to attend according to the rest of the family. They all agreed to honor Don's wishes to sell the collection to me to be displayed in the International Motocross Museum for the whole world to see long after anyone of us is around. The collection was sold legally (lawyer involved) with a bill of sale at a fair market price. I was given instructions by Don as to how he wanted it displayed back in 2008 and I promised him I would carry out his will and that is exactly what will happen. I have worked very hard at preserving motocross history and have had enthusiastic cooperation with every single champion from Les Archer to Torsten Hallman, Joel Robert, Roger De Coster and so on, and even from the factories Yamaha included. There are over 100 factory bikes and we will build this museum with the highest integrity as the sport deserves nothing less. FYI: None of Gary's championship bikes were included.
Just a blanket statement.
No offense to you personally.
Feels like a Monty Python skit. 😆
There's a big fund raiser in July. You can sit with a star, have dinner, hear their stories. It's big money to go. Big money for me anyway.
Sounds like it will be cool place once it opens up.
Pit Row
May I ask, were both parties to the alleged contract represented by counsel?
If your gonna publicly invoke the involvement of an attorney as a basis for ensuring "fair market price", then details are important!
The discussion was whether he was an a$$hole for HOW he got the bike knowing that Gary wanted to keep this link to his cherished memories of his past. This is a bit easier to figure out.
Another point that could be raised was why if he was such good friends with Don Jones for so many years that he didn't get the bikes from him while he was still alive and the transaction only happened well after his death. We can never know what Don's true wishes were and T.Good would not be a good unbiased source on that info. We also don't know the mental state of 93 year old Mrs. Jones. Is she still thinking clearly and mentally fit or is she showing sign's of senility? A lot of people just don't think like they used to at that age.
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