From the "Rebel Rousers" filmed in 1967. One of the worst of the Outlaw Biker films (and I love old biker flicks), ever made, but some neat bikes and really good actors seemingly ad libbing the whole movie. This lobby photo was issued reversed so I have flipped it here.
As displayed in the 1966 Cycle World Motorcycle Show. Paint and fabrication work by Gary Littlejohn. I'd love to find a custom oil tank for the swingarm frames like this one. This is before Gary Littlejohn started making the Coffin gas tanks. Gary was both a painter and metal worker as well as movie stuntman and supplier of many custom choppers for Hollywood "B" movies. In the "Rebel Rousers" the seat and paint had already been changed. I believe this same bike was later used in other biker movies including "Satan's Sadists" from 1969, but with extended forks at that time.1966 Modern Cycle
For some reason I think I've seen an oil tank like that in an old Webco catalogue. I may be losing my mind, but it was a race oil tank. It sure looked like that.
ReplyDeleteI think the type that your thinking of was the alloy wedge style made by Kosman and sold through Webco? I'll be posting some Kosman stuff soon. I'm thinking (guessing) that the one on this bike is steel and looks like the oil tank that was on the swingarm pre-unit survivor that Mike Davis had earlier this year. Could be that Littlejohn made a few before the chopper gas tank thing kicked in?
ReplyDeletePaul you sure know a lot of stuff!
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