bye bye my lovely.

.....packaged up the guzzi today for the trip up to sydney tomorrow to meet the transport dudes...
its a sad day but one good thing is the bike is staying on aussie roads (almost didn't)....

hope you love it as much as i do paul.....

thanks to all my friends who booked and blogged and blabbed about its sale....its going to fund two projects next up.......ducati and a shoptruck shovelhead so me and the wife can cruise the highway...

1963?

cant stop looking at the Manns painting lately.....its shovelhead related for sure.....was this painting from 63?.....im sure someone knows.

ive heard some stories from my mate bob here about kansas goings on and how david was an architectural illustrator prior to 63 or so......just look at the building in the background...does anyone know where this shot was taken?

just warming up for august 24th....

cant help but listen to this one too....

cant get enough of this bike....

...by the mann

wl paintwork...

finished up the colour on mikes wl tins today....i think they came out pretty well...

its pretty subtle but i did the external pinstripe with a touch of gold different to the inside silver one.

ive done the first coats of clear so ill leave them for a few days, block them back and hit them with the final coats...

aussie mates....

here's a shot of one of my oldest best aussie mates......hes still in my phone as michael ss and he aint had one for must be close to 15 years. this was the bike that i bought from him after falling in love with it....i had a 81 mhr at the time....fuck that bike was fast...anyway, when i bought it everybody kept asking how come mick let me borrow his bike...and wheres mick i saw his bike out front....so it came apart and it was reborn as the bike below......

 no one ever asked me again.

by that time mick had a mk3 le mans.....so thats the two of us riding up near wollombi pub like 12 or so years ago for a streetbike photoshoot....good times mick.

over me.

bought the soundtrack to vanishing point and got it in the mail today.....when i hear this song i just go into a daze......i love that end sequence....1 free motherfucker.

the joys of living on a farm....

say hello to my little friend.

we didnt expect this little one.....the result of our neighbours bull being put in the wrong paddock when he got out last year.....

wl paint

this is what im thinking for paint....i painted the tins in silver / gold...the outside of the patches and stripe through the centre will be in metallic black to pick up on the exposed top frame rail and the patches will be in dark metallic brown with some funky stuff blended.

anyway...gotta wait now for more tape to arrive this afternoon.

Mark 1 Le Mans for sale on EBAY

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271031021321#ht_1081wt_1398

i know i know....

you have seen it all before but im putting the guzz on ebay tonight and im linking up the large format photos

im a happy looking fuck aint i!....

was nearly ready for a couple....

of final primer coats and some paint on mikes tins til i dropped my gun and smashed the paint bowl.  its ok its only 100kms to the paint shop.

thinking dark brown/burgundy metallic over black...