Picture fun

Just a couple pictures...one just a logo mashup AEE had late in its life. Another of Leo Payne at our dyno running the Shovelhead with Robert Smith aboard. Last my buddy Lenny Cenotti at the parts counter supposedly explaining something to a customer. Reality? Customer was also an employee.

Upper frame done on Big Twin!

Dave continues to make incredible progress....

Custom Rodder March 1961

Just found this new article about tom McMullen's famous 32....Tom was always the promoter!

Dave continues to make progress on Big Twin......

I've been very sick so sorry about slow updates but here is the latest on Big Twin courtesy the wonder man Dave Brackett!

Dave Brackett has some of his creations for sale.....

This is Amani 4, a trike with seating for three with a custom hot rod style body, old school chopper, 2 - Suzuki 550's driving through a Ford C-4, custom designed and built by Dave.....Contact him at brackett@olypen.com  $15,000

Amani 3 has a 1776cc VW motor, glide clutch, dual Webers, has sidecar chopper style, can be removed, with front end changed can run as drag bike, has run about 100 mph at 7's in 1/8th mile. $14,000

Amani 5 - 1,100cc Suzuki motor, no frame, very unique, springer front end, dark purple with gold $10,000

http://www.brackettracing.com/

Mocking up the engines...Big Twin

Here Dave has dropped in an Ironhead engine to locate the motor mounts as he goes about repairing the Big Twin chassis.

Dave Brackett and Big Twin

The man himself and Big Twin.....

Todays Big Twin update

Dave Brackett, AEE Choppers designer and engineer, shared these pictures with me today of the ongoing Big Twin restoration in conjunction with Bones Legacy of Las Vegas. He tore down the 45 rear end (said the grease was a solid as a rock), got in to the torsion bar tube which was full of water and got it all cleaned up, got rear suspension cleaned up and corrected, got tires to seat and inflate (they are the original 1969 Goodyear bluestreaks), he also had to straighten the handlebars, cleaned up the C4 trans....lots of small but important things being fixed, restored and corrected. He said materials are arriving to begin the fabrication/repair of the neck and frame that got hacked up by a PO. His exact words were "it's a mess" but not once did he say he could not make it right. Dave is the man!

Big Twin tear down

Some pictures of the tear down of Bog Twin by it's builder Dave Brackett.....I'm sure this bring back some memories....

Tom/Rose and the 32

Here is a picture of Tom in his famous 32 roadster in front of Beckman Instruments where he worked at one time. The other is a picture of when Rose won at the Winternationals in Tom's 32....I believe the class at that time was A/SR.

Big Twin before shipping

A shot of Big Twin at Bones Legacy's shop in vegas before it shipped to it's creator Dave Brackett.

Big news on the Big Twin!

Bones Legacy Choppers of Las Vegas has had Big Twin for a couple years and has very slowly begun a restoration. They pulled the motors and had them re-chromed and rebuilt. However one of the previous owners had seriously damaged the chassis when attempting to put a blower on the Twin. In a very smart move Bones Legacy shipped the Big Twin to it's original builder Dave Brackett to do the repairs. Dave received the Big Twin this week and below are some pictures he took of it on arrival. I saw the Big Twin every day at AEE but I don't think I ever saw it missing the two outside Goodyear Blue Streaks (which they removed for shipping). Kind of looks like a funny car from the rear!  enjoy the pictures and also a summary story by Dave I will post in a bit. Dave is a magician and a genius and he will take very good care of his baby I'm sure!

Brown seat and pad

There currently is on Ebay an AEE seat and pad in brown. While I never liked them they do look right on some chops. If nothing else they are in superb condition considering their age....and the pad still has the AEE part number tag on it. It would be real easy to have them recovered by someone like the Haifley Brothers in black and have a real nice looking AEE seat and pad.....

and more trike pictures...its a gold mine!

An interesting collection....of pictures...note that the trike originally had 6 vertical exhaust pipes as shown in one of the pictures but no fenders. Later it appears some fenders got added by the owner and the engine worked on and the exhaust removed.

More pictures of the might AEE Chopper Corvair Trike

Below are some more new photos of the Corvair Trike that the Atha family has provided to me. Warren Atha owned the trike for some time and his family is kindly sharing photos of the trike with us. We are on the look out for the trike and hope someone somewhere will find it. Last reported to be in LA. the last picture shows a brown upholstery around the guages which we believe it had when sold to last known owner.