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So, just joined this forum a few days ago. This site is cool. I'm a huge car nut, all types, but I have a special spot for old rat rods, old hot rods, anything old that is customized. I can't afford my own '32 roadster or '64 Falcon, so I picked up this '59-'61 JC Higgins (that's what I think it is, by looking at oldroads.com and searching on google). Anyway, I picked this up for $80 from a local vintage bike enthusiast who is also into old air-cooled vw's. I live in Utah and am hopefully taking the Salt Flyer back home to the Salt Flats for Speed Week next week. I'm in the brainstorming stage of how I want this bike to look eventually. I've gotten tons of ideas just lurking around your build threads and stuff. I even saw the Bonneville Racer bike, great idea there. I'm going to enjoy it in all its Patina Glory for now and probably this winter when the snow is on the ground, I'll start working on the bike for a Spring release. I'll use this thread to document the resto-mod work. I've got an '87 Fuji road bike that I bought for $200 last summer that I'm thinking of selling for some money for parts or another bike to work on. I bought it to exercise but we bought an elliptical machine so I don't need it anymore, right?! So, why did I buy this thing. Well, it really comes down to 2 things. 1) I can't afford a real hot rod car, so in my years of looking around, this seems to be the next best thing that I can actually afford and 2) I went for a bike ride on the California coast the other week along the Sunset Beach path on a cruiser bike with a loud ringer bell. I had to have one.
Chris "hechtrod" Hecht
Chris "hechtrod" Hecht