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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Lenny

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Rode my bike 1,200 miles to Needles from Napa and back to see Lenny AEE's one and only parts manager this last weekend. He is doing well...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Corvair Trike and Ed Roth

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Tom on the Corvair trike with Ed Roth in the background with his trike. Tom's Kuncklehead "The Mindbender" was bought from Ed....
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Love this bike!

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this was our Sporty, called the Supersport. Frigging great looking bike, killer paint by Molly. Built by Dave Brackett and others at AEE. S...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Old stuff

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This is an ad from back when AEE was just a chopper shop in Buena Park. Check out the prices, those were the days! From this grew the parts ...

At the Salt Flats

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This is when Leo Payne ran the famous Turnip Eater for AEE. Bike is in the national motorcycle museum, still painted red, white and blue but...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Tom and the Supersport

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This is a shot of Tom and Jim Clark doing a chain repair on the Supersport while on a trip. You will note the rear wheel on the bike, its a ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Shops

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this is the second shop, it was on Burton Place and is where I started to work for AEE. It was at the end of a culdesac and across the stree...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Early catalogs

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In the early catalogs things were very crude as you can see. They shot this on a piece of corrugated with stick on letters. As time went by ...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

wing Tank

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Dave Brakett came up with this while building the Honda 350 "Really' . He says he just took some metal and started bending it as he...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

AEE's first bikes

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Here is a shot on the cover of the first issue of Street Chopper of the Mindbender and the Corvair Trike. the knuckle was the bike that bega...

A RANT!

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I'm getting real tired of all the parts out there being represented as AEE and they aren't. Much of it is not intentional. Others I...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

My buddy Lenny

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Lenny was the parts manager and became my friend and still is. This posed shot was our idea of a security system. Lenny, cuffed to the Mindb...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Our shops

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AEE opened up in Buena Park, moved to Anaheim to a larger facility and then on to Placentia in 1971 to an even bigger place. Our final locat...

tom's planes

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This is one of Tom's planes in the background. Molly painted it for him. Tom loved his planes and owned a number over the years includin...
Monday, January 31, 2011

heartbreaker!

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This ad is from Hot Rod magazine late 69 early 70 or so. Tom was selling his world famous 32 Ford as he had lost interest when AEE took off....

Our AEE shop truck

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At some point not too long after Tom started Street Rodder magazine he took what had been our Dodge D100 shop truck and made it in to a proj...
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Me and Arlen

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This is from a couple years ago. I was down at Arlen's place in Dublin. We talked AEE and old times and I managed to get him to throw me...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Amani 3

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Dave Brackett our engineer and designer at AEE continues to build wonderful machines. This is Amani 3 a conitnuation of a project from the ...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

40th Anniversary bike

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Me with "Ruby" the Street Chopper magazine 40th anniversary chopper. I worked for AEE choppers and Street Chopper was part of our ...

Blown Sportster and brown seats

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This bike like all of them at AEE were rolling test bed's for our parts. If you follow the history of the bikes you will see them change...
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