Bike Show at the Gilmore Car Museum
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by Ĝan Ŭesli Starling
copyright 2004
On the weekend of 2004-06-13 I hopped on my ’97 Royal Star for a short jaunt up to Hickory Corners, home of the Gilmore Antique Car Museum. Every year they have an antique motorcycle exposition. I took along my new Minolta Xt and shot these photos.
Outdoors there were all kinds of motorcycles. I just strolled around and had a look.
Indoors, as always, a great many vintage automobiles are to be seen.
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Some you’ve heard of. ↑ →
These are all pretty famous, I’m quite certain.
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Others you may not have... ← ↑
Yup, you read it right. Cars that were made in Kalamazoo! Actually a lot of things used to be made in Kalamazoo: Shakespere fishing tackle, Gibson guitars...
I ran into quite a few folks I know: Jim from the Midway Cafe in Galesburg; and Merl who used to work at Benteler. Tried to introduced myself to a half dozen folks sporting Star Touring patches, but it must not have been a good time as I got kind of a brush off. Their loss as I was about to mention that a certain Royal, one of those on their very own website (mine) was parked just fifty feet up the lane. Or perhaps they did hear and still couldn’t muster the interest. No matter...
After one more walking lap past the outdoor exhibits, I fired up the Royal and took her for a fifty-mile spin north past Hastings, then West for a ways and back on south to Kalamazoo. Turned out a really fine day for riding. And the weatherman had been promising rain. Ha!
