I love old helmets, espesically the metal flake variety. I know some of you have pretty decent collections of the old brain buckets so here is the place to show them off. I'd really like to see some that have been lettered/striped and pics of vintage drag racing helmets. Heres a couple of mine:
What brand are those babies?? I've never seen open faced helmets with that "Rib" on the sides.. crazy!
Muttley ... this is gonna be a cool thread ... I don't have any helmets of my own to post ... but here's a couple of snapshots I took @ the '08 CHRR: ... and a few pics culled from the Internet:
My pops works on hydro electric dam on the mississippi. He knows I'm obsessed with old flaked helmets. One day he calls and says "you'll never guess what I pulled out of the river today". It was a Capt. America stlye metalflake helmet just about to go over the spillways. Kinda f'd up from floatin in the river, but never the less how random. I'll post pics of it and some others soon.
Any Earlier Ones? My Dad wore an old Shell-Shock years ago when he was riding his B.S.A.125 to work every day....I thought we had it kept, but not so. Dad has been gone over 30 years, but I can still smell the 2 stroke mix, old Brylcream and decayed leather inside it.......
Nifty idea for a thread ... I'm dyin' to see what comes up. One of the memories I have from my youth was this motorcycle club (gang) that based themselves in my hometown. There was this one guy who road a Harley trike (you know the kind ... old Flathead 45 w/ a jockey shift). He wore an old vintage WWII German helmet that was chrome plated. I was about 12 years old ... and I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.It wasn't one of those out of proportion cheesy things they sell nowdays.This one was one of those big suckers. That thing covered most of the top half of his entire head. You could barely see his shades peekin' out from underneath. I still think of that quite often. Now that they make exact repro WWII German helmets (for the reenactors), I've been very tempted to buy one and recreate the one that guy had.
Hopefully they have bigger webbing inside. I don't even think a 7-year old could wear my helmet. TINY suspension webbing!! Hopefully not as heavy, as well!
Great thread. Everybody loves old helmets.anyone into old cars, dirtbikes, or race cars can relate. Art for sure.
The blue on is one that I spiffied up to go with the T at MOKAN last year. If you can't be fast, you can at least be sylish. lol The white with blue was a practice piece. I think I used it for a HAMB auction. Can't remember. The one with the eyes I did for a neighborhood kid several years ago. He painted it and wanted some stripes on it.
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