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I guess I kinda ran out of time to do a proper photo shoot for this one. Down to the last day, and it's a rainy cruddy day and we have plans to go to a cookout, so all I can do is rip off a few shots against the garage door and the neighbor's brick wall. Oh well, the bike will have to stand on its own merits.
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This was kind of an interesting project. Many times I've heard guys here on the board say stuff like "Listen to the bike." Well, it took me a while, but I finally heard this bike saying "stop putzing around with taillight ideas."
Sure enough, I was better off sticking with what I started with.
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My daughter asked why I left the little #32 decals all over the bike. It's a philosophy I carried over from collecting old Aurora slot cars. Many guys who collect will go to a lot of trouble and expense to restore cars to their original condition. But on the occasions when I have found a Pit Kit full of cars left exactly the way they were when the kid discovered girls and stopped playing with toys, all painted and stickered and beat up, I have mostly left them exactly as I found them as sort of a snapshot of a different time. Some kid spent his hard-earned paper route money buying decals and fat little tires and hop-up magnets to customize this thing, and I choose to preserve that.
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Same goes for this bike. Fifty years ago, some kid made it his own with these decals. Now I made it mine with the bars and seat and cleanup effort, but the decals are part of the story.
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