Transportation for Your Parker

[Bruce Day]

Local region car show. Some Parker owners have nice cars and might appreciate these. Many of my Parker friends have some nice cars or bikes out back, such as Healeys, Corvettes , Jags and I have a couple that sometimes need the carbon blown out. I'm partial to classic Mercedes cars. Besides, you need something to haul the guns in.

[Bruce Day]

And now I'm standing by a Ducati 350 single road bike like my old one but this one has the cafe racer bars and mine had road bars.

Next is Marvin Huey, the gun case maker and his Mercedes convertible that he has rebuilt. Nice wood, which he refinished.

[Dean Romig]

Thanks Bruce. There are some really sweet old cars and bikes there.

[Tom Brown]

Thanks Bruce, they are simply beautiful!

[charlie cleveland]

really nice..i appreciate these fine photos... charlie

[Angel Cruz]

Thanks Bruce! You even got a picture of my dream car. The 1963 Corvette "Split Window Coupe"
And the right color to boot!!

[David Weber]

I think the Volvo wagon would be a great hunting vehicle.

[Dean Romig]

I couldn't agree more! That's a very pretty Volvo P210 (or 544 wagon). It's getting very hard to get parts for those older Volvos these days. If that one is 1961 1/2 or later it has the B18 engine which is better than the older B16 engine. In any case, they're fun to drive but I wouldn't drive it in the woods... but thirty or forty years ago I was guilty of such things.

[Russ Jackson]

Bruce ,Very Nice ,Thanks for posting these great pictures !I am Partial to those Old Healey's ,but the truth is ,I like them all ! Russ

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

Bruce thanks for the trip down memory lane.I wish I still had my 58 Ariel square Four that I outran everything back in the sixtys.Thomas

[Bruce Day]

Tom, I had a jet in 1969 and 1970 that could get along rather smartly and would even roll upside down. I never tried that on a bike.

Wish you still had the Ariel? Why not look around?

[edgarspencer]

I've had more English cars than an otherwise healthy person should admit to, but loved any pre '50 brit bike. The only exception was a '57 Trophy TR6. My last Ariel became a deluxe take-down '86 Winchester. It was a '37 Red Hunter VH (500) I still have a '47 BSA B32 factory trials bike. Restoring it was my therapy back in the 90s when I was going thru a divorce. I took it to Sturbridge, the big British bike show, took Best British Single, put it back in the barn that night, and it's never been out since.

[Bill Murphy]

My favorite of Bruce's pictures is the GM huckster's wagon build from a panel truck. A later small block crate motor and automatic transmission would make it a very useful daily driver. My second choice is the '41 Woody, which should be powered by the original flathead.

[Dean Romig]

In 1966 I "discovered" a '41 woody in al old barn. It was maroon and all I could see that was wrong with it was that it needed tires and there was a bit of rust over one headlight. I asked the old guy who owned it and he said I could have it for $100

Who had $100 back then when he was a senior in high school???

[charlie cleveland]

not me.. charlie