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  1. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    While we are on the subject of motorized bikes, here is a current photo of my Whizzer now that turn signals and heavy-duty wheels have been fitted.
  2. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    Very nice looking bike, but you're going to need to shorten that drive chain or it will jam and /or pop off.
  3. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    I haven't seen a V-Twin 49cc Honda, but I believe you might be referring to the 49cc OHC Honda GX50 engine which is used in generators. A lot of those as well as the Chinese clone of it (HuaSheng F142) are showing up on motorized bikes now. Here's one on my Sun Retro Cruiser, coupled with an...
  4. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    Unfortunately, it didn't come out. Do you have the photo hosted on a site such as Photobucket? If so, post the link and we'll be able to view it.
  5. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    A Friend of mine bought that bike from me a couple weeks ago, before I had a chance to do any work on it. But I now have another project for the upcoming winter months. I'll be converting this $10 auction find prewar (I believe) Shelby Traveler into a motorized bike (a la Whizzer).
  7. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    You might want to try Memory Lane Classics ( www.memorylane-classics.com ) for that seat.
  8. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    It never fails. This is the third time in as many years that I've gone to the Trexlertown bicycle show and swap meet looking for parts and have returned with yet another bike. This year it is a 1940s Huffman "Zephyr" woman's bike in mostly original paint (except for the rims and rack) that I...
  9. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    I was going to say that the JC Higgins bikes were Murray-built, but you beat me to that in your edit. The bike in the second photo appears to be a Rollfast. The jury is still out on that however, as I'm still looking around. The chainring is actually one used on a lot of Schwinns, the fork...
  10. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    Nice looking bike!
  11. KilroyCD

    Favorite Uniforms

    Apparently one of the Polizia was better at wearing the uniform than driving the Gallardo. Getting back on topic though, I tend to agree with Soren. The RAF Battle Dress uniform is a definite favourite, and perhaps the tropical is my very favourite.
  13. KilroyCD

    Blackout Regulations

    Actually, there was. Japanese subs shelled US west coast installations on two occasions. One was the shelling of the Ellwood Oil Fields near Santa Barbara by the I-17 on the 23rd of Februaray, 1942. http://www.militarymuseum.org/Ellwood.html Fort Stevens in Oregon was shelled by submarine...
  14. KilroyCD

    Blackout Regulations

    Later in the war many towns along the coast also practiced "dimouts", in which no light could be allowed to shine in the direction of the coast, but low intensity lamps were permitted to shine downwards (again, with the coastal side of the lamp shielded). Houses only had to have any windows...
  15. KilroyCD

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Patricia Neal From Yahoo News: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for 1963's "Hud" and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday. She was 84. Neal had lung cancer and died at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on...
  16. KilroyCD

    Americans in the RAF

    I have the book, but have not yet gotten around to reading it. I'll have to have a look at it.
  17. KilroyCD

    What type of Unit/Army are you interested in?

    I'm with Spitfire and Smithy, but add 19 and 610 Squadrons to the mix.
  19. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    Nice bike! As I've always said, a bike is only ever original once, so I'm glad you're choosing to preserve rather than customize it. The paint appears to have been maroon originally, and has faded or oxidized so it looks to be brown. Am I correct in that observation? A good polishing...
  20. KilroyCD

    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    There doesn't seem to be as many choices anymore when it comes to generator powered sets, but here's one you might want to look at: http://www.bikeworldusa.com/product_info.php/cPath/124_25_51/products_id/387
  21. KilroyCD

    Rare WWII Bill Mauldin?

    Here's a favorite of mine: But for those of us who reenact at Mid Atlantic Air Museum's WWII Weekend it needs to be paraphrased to say: "It's gotta to be Reading"
  22. KilroyCD

    BATTLE OF BRITAIN (1940) - Respecting THE FEW.

    Soren, if you can find a copy you will not be disappointed. I have a copy of the book which is signed by Hugh "Cocky" Dundas. He was a delight chap, and I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1990 at a B of B seminar. If you find a copy and read it you'll quickly find out he was quite the...
  23. KilroyCD

    Sad News: Kilroy CD's father, Don (Dutch) Davis, has passed away.

    Wow, this is all very touching, very moving. Thank you all for your kind words and sentiments. Thank you Fred for turning this into its own thread, as I felt in retrospect that I had unfortunately hijacked the original thread. It's tough going right now, as there is so much around me that...

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