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Thursday, June 30, 2011

USS Angler

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Tom was in the Navy and this is the sub he was on. It is an older fleet boat that saw service in WW2, diesel powered. He supposedly had a ni...

tom's 32 before it was his!

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These pictures were taken in 1956, believe a guy named Don Hudson owned the car at that time. Work was being done on the car at a shop.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

A seat I have

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This is a 40 year old AEE seat I came across (and bought) and it's perfect!!! Check it out, it even has the part number sticker attache...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Tom's 32 is now a model from Danbury Mint!

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Toms' 32 is now available as a model! This is an actual photo of the model, its perfect! The Danbury Mint is proud to introduce the Li...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Tom's house

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If you follow the link you can find an ad about the house that Tom had just finished before he died. He and his wife never got to live in it...
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Tom's 32 in 1961

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This is Tom's famous 32 in 1961 at Pomona. It is a metalflake green that didn't work out so well.
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Kit bike engine

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This is a picture of the AEE Sportster kit bike engine. When this bike was originally assembled in the prototype department it had this engi...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Pink Floyd

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Dave Brackett our esteemed engineer and designer at AEE recently forwarded me this picture of one of four choppers built for Pink Floyd for ...
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...