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Discussion in 'Off Topic Hot Rods & Customs' started by deathrowdave, Sep 18, 2024.

  1. DDDenny
    Joined: Feb 6, 2015
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    DDDenny
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    from oregon

    Isn't it!
    All one needs to do is highlight the photo and when the menu opens click on "search image with Google Lens", various options such as "exact matches", etc. to be chosen.

     
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  3. DDDenny
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    DDDenny
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    from oregon

  4. Sorry Denny,

    I thought that was something that could only be done with a phone. I use a search engine that does not track your every move like Google does. There are several, but I use Duck Duck Go.

    God Bless
    Bill
    https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/
     
  5. DDDenny
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    DDDenny
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    from oregon

    I just use Google because it gets me the required results, I'm not concerned with that whole data tracking, selling, etc., some things in life aren't escapable.
    I have no personal politics, it's free, so I use it.
     
  6. Sky Six
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    Sky Six
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    from Arizona

  7. Sky Six
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    Sky Six
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  8. Sky Six
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    Sky Six
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  9. Sky Six
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    Sky Six
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  10. Sky Six
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    Sky Six
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  11. John Bowen
    Joined: Dec 24, 2024
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    John Bowen

    Warning, Rant Alert! Growing up in the sixties the only whitewalls were on dressers, ( the famous Goodyear Speed Slip) or on stripped down hogs that the guy bought used and didn't have the money for a blackwall yet. It's probably just me but Man I hate those things. Nothing ruins a cool bike like a set of fake retro whitewalls to me. Rant over. You'll now be returned to your regularly scheduled program.
     
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  12. DDDenny
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    DDDenny
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    I'll stir the pot a bit.
    I feel the same way about drag cars with whitewalls!
     
  13. Sky Six
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    Sky Six
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    from Arizona

    That wasn't much of a rant.:D
     
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  14. John Bowen
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    John Bowen

    True, but all those words for two finger typing wore me down!
     
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  15. Sky Six
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    Sky Six
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  16. John Bowen
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    John Bowen

    I like that! Years ago my brother worked for Miller's Custom Parts in south Daytona and a somewhat rougher version of this was in the parking lot, even had the requisite chain from the clutch pedal to the release arm. My brother and I are lying on the hot Florida asphalt looking up under that trike for all the cool 60s/70s details and a bunch of bolt on Evo riders were looking at us wondering what was so special about the flathead. They just didn't get it.
     
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  17. Sky Six
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    Sky Six
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    from Arizona

    Damn you're old.:)
    Nobody remembers running a dog leash from pedal to arm. You probably know what a mousetrap is also.
    The problem with the 4-5 servicar was that if you polished, ported, bored, stroked, and god knows what else...you'd still only do 55 MPH.
    Now the flathead 80 was a different beast.
     
  18. John Bowen
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    John Bowen

    Yes to everything. The Shovelhead I posted in #871 has a mousetrap on it. True on the 45, but they sure look cool. Knew a guy in Florida with an 80 flathead that would walk away from my '74 XLCH. And yes, bought the Sportster new. I was 19. :D
     
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  19. John Bowen
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    John Bowen

  20. Ned Ludd
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    Warning, Tangent Alert! You see anachronistic whitewalls on cars, too, these days. Wide whites on a 1978 Alfasud? Just because it's an "old car"? It's as if history before 2000 just flows together every which way.
     
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  21. John Bowen
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    John Bowen

    True, it seems like sacrilege, but my wife chides me with, "Why do you care, they're not asking your opinion." And just for the record I had to look up "anachronistic". Nice word choice. Thank you.
     
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  22. Sky Six
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    Sky Six
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    I use ****cro... anacrani...anachrom...the big word all the time. it's like a m***ive rectal prolapse, right?
     
  23. John Bowen
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    John Bowen

    I'm NOT gonna look that up.
     
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  24. twenty8
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    Hey, that's me. I'm anachronistic, and damn proud of it.:D
     
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  25. Illustrious Hector
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    I have one of those "bolt on evos" but I make things on it appear older I.E. spotlight bar & head light, '47 Tank emblems, etc. When the original wwwalls wore out, the additional cost over blackwalls seemed like paying more and getting less. Maybe the thin stripes on an '60s-70s 20250304_142922.jpg Electra-Glide. As Matt & the gang at WTT say "friends don't let friends run whitewalls.
     
  26. duecesteve
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    duecesteve
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    Screenshot_20251103-123237~2.jpg
    A friend of mine owns this it's so cool it's exact:)
     
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  27. Illustrious Hector
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    Yes, it is. By exact do mean matching the OG?
    In The photo it's hard to tell, but the original had an adjustable Wide Glide, just sayin'
     
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  28. James D
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  29. Tickety Boo
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    Tickety Boo
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    Pots starting to boil over :eek::D
    046.jpg
     
  30. duecesteve
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    duecesteve
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    IMG_20260220_141757968~2.jpg IMG_20260220_140939693~2.jpg IMG_20260220_140930799~2.jpg
     
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