Throwback Tuesday fall race days

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Edited Date/Time 11/6/2014 12:07pm
Been working throw some old slides from Sundays gone by.





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vet323 11/4/2014 10:42am
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Is that Sear's Point?
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Just beautiful stuff, FTE!

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Ross Williams, Sears Point Trans-USA, I believe in 1979... And maybe another FTE photo!



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Awesome.
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FreshTopEnd 11/4/2014 11:28am
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DC wrote:
Ross Williams, Sears Point Trans-USA, I believe in 1979... And maybe another FTE photo! [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2014/11/04/69622/s1200_RossWilliams.jpg[/img] DC MX Sports
Ross Williams, Sears Point Trans-USA, I believe in 1979... And maybe another FTE photo!



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Don't think so, but we were probably shoulder to shoulder . . .

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Bauer 11/4/2014 11:52am
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Here'e one for you, Michael!

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mx317 11/4/2014 11:54am
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Is 338 Donnie Cantalopi? I'm pretty sure I misspelled that name.
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GIwasB4 11/4/2014 12:37pm
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mx317 wrote:
Is 338 Donnie Cantalopi? I'm pretty sure I misspelled that name.
I was just wondering the same thing.
Fantastic stuff FTE
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Uncle Tony 11/4/2014 12:41pm
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Wow very cool! I hope this keeps going like the sick 2stroke thread
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
Been working throw some old slides from Sundays gone by. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2014/11/04/69613/s1200_StusiakSears001.jpg[/img]
Been working throw some old slides from Sundays gone by.





I was there that day and the following weekend raced that track,I loved that place when the track was like that,it could be great or like concrete.
Great stuff and thanks for bringing the old memories back.
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SouthwestMfg 11/4/2014 4:24pm
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338 Donnie Cantaloupe

FTE where is on (74?) pic from, the four open Suzuki's. Don't remember seeing those numbers in the US, Carlsbad ?

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FreshTopEnd 11/4/2014 4:26pm
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Kenny Zahrt at a fall north south race at Argyll (Labor Day), probably 1976/77



(Loved me those GPII Phantoms)



Thanks Steve, great evening, such a terrific guy, sadly and sorely missed.



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FreshTopEnd 11/4/2014 4:31pm
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SouthwestMfg wrote:
338 Donnie Cantaloupe

FTE where is on (74?) pic from, the four open Suzuki's. Don't remember seeing those numbers in the US, Carlsbad ?
Trans AMA, 74 I believe, at Carnegie. Those would have been the Japanese riders bikes, I believe RD's bike is just past to the right (69, only one with leading axle forks, and you can see the tank mod to clear). I think Runyard and/or Thorwaldson's bikes are in the rear.



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GIwasB4 11/4/2014 5:31pm
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SouthwestMfg wrote:
338 Donnie Cantaloupe

FTE where is on (74?) pic from, the four open Suzuki's. Don't remember seeing those numbers in the US, Carlsbad ?
Notice on the 338, the aluminum tank and translucent side plates, that's a factory YZ?
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tydog 11/4/2014 6:25pm
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Great pics as always Michael and such timeliness with the post. Well done buddy. Now go finish that red Honda!
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Brent 11/4/2014 9:12pm
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The first Zahrt pic is from 76 I think, he raced the USGP support class on that same bike, I've got old pics somewhere...
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Vet57 11/5/2014 2:57am
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Thanks FTE! Love Sears Point and the MVO Marty shots....
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Bluelion 11/5/2014 3:38am
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I took this photo of Marty Tripes at Mid ohio Trans Am 1979..
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motomike137 11/5/2014 4:46am
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Awesome pictures FTE! Those early days of MX in this country were magic.
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motomike137 11/5/2014 4:48am
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Bluelion wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2014/11/05/69674/s1200_m_tripes_79.jpg[/img] I took this photo of Marty Tripes at Mid ohio Trans Am 1979..


I took this photo of Marty Tripes at Mid ohio Trans Am 1979..
This guy could show up "On Any Given Sunday" and trounce the field.
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motomike137 11/5/2014 4:54am
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
Been working throw some old slides from Sundays gone by. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2014/11/04/69613/s1200_StusiakSears001.jpg[/img]
Been working throw some old slides from Sundays gone by.





I had the privledge of seeing "The Man" race one time and it was at Red Bud on a cold fall weekend during the heyday of the Trans-AM series. I'm walking around the track as the first moto gets underway and as the pack goes by me I noticed a rider with his bike wedged between the fence and a small tree (yes the tree was inside the fence). It was Rodger and he was dead last. He used the 45 minutes they raced then to come all the way back to second in that moto and ran out of time to catch his teammate Gerrit Wolsink. Everybody who was anybody in the world raced that series then and the field was dominated by Europes finest.
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DC 11/5/2014 4:57am
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The Honda Hills Trans-AMA used to take place every September in the early seventies. Track stayed open for awhile, owned by Dick Klamfoth, and now I believe it's all done. The sign stayed visible from Interstate 70 until at least last fall... Not sure if it's still there, but it always reminded me of the Trans-AMAs...



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robkinuk 11/5/2014 4:59am
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Michael
was this one of your shots of Roger that artist Tom Fritz used for his 70th birthday painting?

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