Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

Alzero said:
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A Healy 3000 in Jacksonville, Florida.View attachment 68267
Something a bit different: a Trumpy yacht from the old days. IIRC, she was once a Presidential yacht. Also in Jacksonville.
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Lovely craft. I can't read the name on it but it looks similar to The Potomac, which was Roosevelt's presidential yacht in the 30s and 40s. The Potomac was impounded by the US Coast Guard while smuggling drugs in from S. America in the 1970s and eventually became a museum in the San Francisco area.
 
GTCarlos said:
Lovely craft. I can't read the name on it but it looks similar to The Potomac, which was Roosevelt's presidential yacht in the 30s and 40s. The Potomac was impounded by the US Coast Guard while smuggling drugs in from S. America in the 1970s and eventually became a museum in the San Francisco area.
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She is called Innisfail now which was her original name, but was El Presidente for a while.
 
Reminds me of the time I bought a 750 SF1 with a complete Kawasaki front end, instruments included. I sold all that and the Laverda didn't cost me a penny.
Paul
 
Motorcycle Police out here were tossed off the Triumph Saints, onto XS1 Yamaha with handle bar mounted clear "fairing" then told to not go over 65mph as the fairing took control of the handle bars, ultimate insult.... relegated onto "Bombers".... one such mounted lamentable product of the motorcycle cop school... as i engaged a parking spot on my 1973 GT750K..."you cant handle that bike..." me..says you Mr 450.... he rode off...

Said same cops tried Suzy GT750's, Kwaka Z1's in black and white, possibly from memory, MG Cali's for NSW.... long time ago now. Did ride for a time with the ex commandant of the Goulburn Academy, and a Laverda owning Inspector grade Policeman... the bomber here is early version...CV carbs even then.. you do get around for an old sock... wince and a grin...
 
2nd generation Toyota Century: the Japanese Rolls-Royce. This model has a 5-liter V-12 and was illegally parked in the Susukino red light district, the largest north of Tokyo! What are the odds it’s a yakuza boss coming to check how things went last night?
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There were many chauffeur driven 3rd generation models in the Ginza district of Tokyo, but I couldn’t get any good shots.
 
Alzero said:
2nd generation Toyota Century: the Japanese Rolls-Royce. This model has a 5-liter V-12 and was illegally parked in the Susukino red light district, the largest north of Tokyo! What are the odds it’s a yakuza boss coming to check how things went last night?
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There were many chauffeur driven 3rd generation models in the Ginza district of Tokyo, but I couldn’t get any good shots.
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Nice big boot/trunk... very useful. ;)

piet
 
Exmoor beast said:
What you doing in the red light district- “ looking at cars officer..”😂
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My wife booked us an apartment a block outside! Plus it’s also the food and entertainment district. I didn’t find out about the red light thing until we had been here almost a week, I just saw all the girlie bars and didn’t really think about it. Compared to Thailand, it’s pretty discreet.

The yen to dollar rate is the best since 1990 and we have been making the most of it by eating an amazing variety of Hokkaido seafood at astonishingly low prices. Sushi that would have cost $250 in LA is $80 here! A dinner of Hokkaido and Tasmanian lamb grilled bite by bite in front of us by the chef was $52.
 
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Alzero said:
My wife booked us an apartment a block outside! Plus it’s also the food and entertainment district. I didn’t find out about the red light thing until we had been here almost a week, I just saw all the girlie bars and didn’t really think about it. Compared to Thailand, it’s pretty discreet
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I’m only joking- your are on a fantastic tour and soaking it all up, keep posting pics- loving it it.
 
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