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karfer67

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some of you will remember this bike. i built it for the 2008 rat rod bike build off. i built it with the intention of giving it back to the kid who owned it before. you can read the story and check out the build here viewtopic.php?f=24&t=7503 . well i never told him i was doing this or even his family till it was almost done. turned out the kid had joined the army and was over in iraq! he would be back on leave that x mas and we would do the revel there. some how there was a miscomunication and i missed him at that time and he went back over seas. i did not hear from them for a long time and i feared that something had happened to him over seas and really did not want to hear that so i waited. then just the other day his dad came in and said everything was cool with him and in fact he was in town on leave. so today i loaded up the bike and took it over. he could not believe that it was the same bike and i think was a bit in shock he had to this day never seen it done. it felt good to be able to give back. anyways here is a few pics of the bike as it was when newly built then a few with the proud new owner.
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i love that bike that was so cool of you to do that you should b proud of your self that so awsum :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen: :lol: :p :) :D :mrgreen:
 
They look like a PERFECT match!........Good man, Adam. :wink:
 
nice,,good carma is in the makin ,what goes around comes around !,i knew you were a good dude !
 
thanks guys for the kind comments but i always wanted to do something like this and it was a good excuse to build the bike for the build off then be able to give it away to the original owner. a reminder here is what it looked like when i started man i forgot how ugly it was
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Adam, That's way crazy cool what you did. It's even sweeter dude's a soldier fighting for our freedom!
 
Adam, that's just a danged nice, incredible thing to do, period, but combined with such an awesome build and beautiful end-result, you've really built up your "karma bank".
Nice to see someone doing something nice for one of our servicemen, but like I said, when it's something that you've put so much creative time and effort into, it just makes it all that more special. Well done, lad!
 
From the very proud father of a son who is currently serving his second tour in Iraq with the US Army 82nd Airborne.......

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS!

Freedom isn't free, our military has been paying the bill with blood, sweat, and tears since the 1770's.

I will be posting the "rebuild" of my son's 1973 Raleigh I hope to have finished by the time his deployment is done in July.
 
thanks dan i am gonna miss this bike too it is fun to ride her last ride was at the sf expo where at the show it took best paint, then on sunday riding around sf with the chopaderos. i hate walking my bikes up hills and this one was able to crank up them all where i would stop and have a smoke waiting for them. this bike also took best full custom at the 2008 bike o rama show as well. thanks to all who helped me with this bike and cheered me along all the while. on the bright side i have more room in my garage now :mrgreen:
 

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