Took some pics today of this stuff today and thought i'd share,even though this set is predominantly cycle stuff. This stuff belongs to my "ol' man's" buddy.He belonged to the Sessions CC out of the SFV,which started out a as MC apparently.He stated all founding members all had Ariel motorcycles which the only differance between them were the designs that Von Dutch had striped on both their bikes and racing helmets,as you can see on the forks,tank and helmet in the one pic.He may even still have his helmet! These are only a few of the artifacts i snapped some pics of.Hes going to try and look around for the ones buried away.Best thing was seeing his 89 year old face light up talking about the strip.If anyone has any pics/history of the CC or throphy pics please post,pretty sure he'll get a kick out of it!! Ill try and post if anything comes out hiding. the throphy that is blurry in the pic is dated 1959 if anyone is curious.
Here's a pic from a Sunday afternoon at San Fernando. "TV" Tommy Ivo with the trophy girl after winning Top Eliminator...
Later in the decade they gave window decals instead of trophies. A quarter window from my old H/G '39 Chev...
"TV Tommy" is a hero of mine! Love that guy; love that trophy girl; love that car; love that nail head, love those slicks... they used to make their own slicks back in the day by retreading street tires with smooth, soft compound. I love this crazy cool picture! Gallons of thanks, "Special"
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