June 2011

1915 Indians sporting 15hp.

1905 Marsh motorized bicycle made in the U.S.A. - 249cc 1.5 hp - 35 mph.

1913 Flying Merkel made in Middletown, Ohio - Air-cooled, vee-twin four stroke with 7 hp and a top speed of 60 mph.

1911 Flanders made in the U.S.A. - 483cc 4 hp. $175 fob Pontiac, Michigan.

1910 Pierce Four made in the U.S.A. - Dubed the “Vibrationless Motorcycle” production of this model ceased in 1913.

1934 Crocker Speedway Machine Made in the U.S.A. - Costs: $385.

1934 Harley-Davidson C.A.C - Designed to compete with the more popular British J.A.P. models, the C.A.C. is close copy.

1922 Reading Standard made in U.S.A. - 1100cc 12 hp three speed.

1927 Brough Superior Model 6/80 made in Great Britain - Good performance and lighter weight made for a popular model.

1972 Kawasaki H1 RA - The last successful year of Kawasaki’s 500 series raced by Canadian Yvon Duhamel.

1960 Honda RC 161 Grand Prix - 249.37cc air cooled inline four cylinder.

1970 Honda SL 175 - The “Street Scrambler” as it was known was an immensely popular model.

1984 Honda RS750D - Specifically built to take on the Harley-Davidson flat-trackers. Bubba Shobert won the title for Honda in 1984.

1975 Bultaco Astro 250 - American influence and made in Spain - Designed for Flat Track.

1970 Indian Velocette - design by American entrepreneur Floyd Clymer.

1979 Silk 700S Mk 2 Sabre made in Great Britain - Machine #138, the last Silk to be built.

1996 Moto Guzzi Stornello Regolarita Six Days Trials machine.

1970 Sachs Enduro made in Germany - Small, lightweight machine perfect for the International Six Days Trials.

1974 Kawasaki 1600 V8 - Custom built by British enthusiast Allan Millyard.

1968 Dresda Triton built in London, England - Used a Triumph Bonneville engine mounted in a Norton featherbed frame.

1959 Lilac CF40 - Very rare with only 14 known to exist with 9 being in their native Japan.

1962 Matchless G15/45 made in Great Britain - The final and largest version of the Matchless vertical twins - bored out to 738cc.

Moto Scoot built in Chicago in the Mid 1930s to 1950s used primarily as delivery vehicles.

1953 Honda 145cc - The first Honda motorcycles were heavily influenced by German engineering.

1951 BSA Golden Flash made in Great Britain - 646cc with a top end close to 100mph.

1956 Maico Taifun made in Germany - An incredibly advanced design both in style and technical innovation.

1950 Triumph TRW - available only to the armed forces.

1939 BSA M20 - The British government ordered 8,000 of these machines for WWII. 126,000 total units built for allied forces.

1943 BMW R75 3X2 - complete with machine gun.

1949 Moto-Guzzi Airone Turismo made in Italy - Inverted fork and monoshock rear design were innovative design for the time.

1939 BMW R12 - the top selling pre-WWII BMW.

1962 BSA Spitfire Scrambler made in Great Britain exclusively for the U.S. market for off-road and TT Scrambles type races.

1938 Crocker made in the U.S.A. - Approximately 75 machines made between 1936 and 1940.

1951 Indian Warrior TT made in the U.S.A. - Indian’s answer to the British off-road enduro machines.

1925 Bohmerland made in Czechoslovakia - designed to seat three people in tandem.

1960 Aermacchi Chimera made in Italy - A sales disaster as the styling was too radical for its time.

1958 Triumph Twenty One - Triumph’s first model to feature unit construction with motor and transmission in a common housing.

1974 Ducati 750SS made in Italy - Only 450 of these machines were made.

1971 MV Agusta 250B made in Italy - A luxurious and expensive 250cc machine radically different from the average MV.

1998 Jawa Ice Racer made in Czechoslovakia - Designed to race speedway on an ice surface. 150 steel-hardened spikes in the rear tire and 100 spikes in the front.Note the unusual shape of the left handlebar allowing the rider’s elbow to scrape

the ice at incredible lean angles.

1957 Harley Davidson ST165 - A copy of the DKW RT125, this two stroke Harley was produced from 1948 to 1966.

1952 MV Agusta 150 Turismo made in Italy - 153cc and 5.5 hp would reach speeds up to 55 mph.

1996 Britten V-1000 made in New Zealand - Considered by many as the Holy Grail of road race machines. Only 10 were built - this is #7.

1923 Scott Sprint Special made in Great Britain - A water-cooled two stroke with automatic oil injection.

1948 Marmon/Schwinn built by Marmon Products Co. of Los Angeles - Engineered by Herbert “Zeppo” Marx of the famous Marx Brothers.

The Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is located at the 740 acre Barber Motorsports Park that includes a world class 2.38 mile racetrack.Home to the world’s best motorcycle collection, the museum now has over 1200 vintage and modern motorcycles and racecars and the largest collection of Lotus cars as well as other significant makes. The collection is the largest of its kind in the world. There are approximately 600 of the 1200 motorcycles on display at any given time. These bikes range from 1902 to current-year production. The common street bikes are represented, as well as rare one-off Gran Prix race machinery.

For more information go online to www.barbermuseum.org