"Start Line at Laconia" picture... help date

[OreoGaborio]

[Sheppo]

I'll say late 60's I'll ask my service mgr on Monday if he can put a date on it.

HINT - The 'Frank' on the Boston Yamaha could maybe be Frank Cerendello (sp?) of the Parkway/cycles/plaistow dealerships.

[BMFR6]

awesome picture pete. look at the front drums on those things! they're bigger than the rear drum brakes on my silverado!

[spydah]

Vintage day last monday?

[palanon]

Something tells me Johnny B will know.

[OreoGaborio]

Shit, that's probably JohnnyB sittin on the #150 bike

[KillBill]

Excellent Picture

[whynot]

#190 Boston Yamaha is Frank Camillieri, proprietor now of Stone Machine Company:
45 E Derry Rd
Chester, NH 03036
(603) 887-4287

Maybe some of y'all know Frank from USCRA racing?

(Frank, are you there? Still alive? Still in business?)

Ca. 1975 Frank was service manager at Boston Yamaha.

His bike is a Yamaha TD-1C production road racer. That's piston port, air cooled FYI. I had a TD-1B at the time, three port vs. 5-port of the C model.

#9 is Gary Nixon then a Yamaha factory team rider for the 250 class, still on Triumph for 500.

I'm guessing June 1967 (or '68) AMA race at Loudon (Briar Motorsport Park, that is). The 250 Experts (white ovals) and Amateurs (Juniors) (yellow ovals) ran together in the same event, so I would be a few rows back on the starting grid. (I have a snapshot of those white factory Yamahas at Daytona in March 1967.) The fastest I ever went was when Nixon et al were lapping the field and sucked me along through the corners.

The Kawasaki third from left is a 250cc A1-R, rotary valve twin. Vastly unreliable.

The red bikes I think are all Aermacchi 250s. (H-D had bought Aermacchi, so technically they were entered has Harley Sprints.)

Great pic -- where'd you find it?

Will post more if I dig up more info. I've got a bunch of 10x16 B&W pics from around then at Loudon, will look for them.

"Thanks for the memory ..."

Kurt

[Sheppo]

Thank you Kurt !

[WordTooYoMamma]

Wirelessly posted (Tilt: HTC-8900/1.2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) UP.Link/6.3.1.20.06.3.1.20.0)

Dam I was gonna say from a galaxy far away, but whynots answer works too

[Kenn157]

Is that Kham on the #21 machine?

[whynot]

I took another look at the pic, that could be me way over on the far right, wearing cap and shades (just over the shoulder of the guy in the stylish plaid shirt.

[OreoGaborio]

Thanks, Kurt!

Knew I'd find out more about the pic from someone on here... This place is friggin awesome when it comes to New England's racing history!


I found the pic in a thread on svrider.net that's CHALK FULL of vintage pics. I'll have to copy/paste your post! Thanks, bro

Here's the thread. Enjoy http://forum.svrider.com/showthread.php?t=66141

[a13x]

FWIW Gary Nixon is still racing in the AMA Moto-GT series on a Kawasaki 650R. The team name is "Pair of Nines" and it's Gary and Jay Springsteen.

[Sheppo]

FWIW Gary Nixon is still racing in the AMA Moto-GT series on a Kawasaki 650R. The team name is "Pair of Nines" and it's Gary and Jay Springsteen.

God, growing up Jay Springsteen was my hero

[whynot]

Thanks, Kurt! Knew I'd find out more about the pic from someone on here... This place is friggin awesome when it comes to New England's racing history! I found the pic in a thread on svrider.net that's CHALK FULL of vintage pics. I'll have to copy/paste your post! Thanks, bro
Here's the thread. Enjoy http://forum.svrider.com/showthread.php?t=66141

Yer welcome, Pete -- and thanks for the link, lots of great pics to while away the hours with. On p. 20 of that thread is a post "Ago at the Canadian GP 1967" and also a photo of Hailwood's Honda, that for sure must be Mike the Bike standing next to it, eh? Anyway, I was there, it was cold and rainy, September 1967, totally miserable, but I loved that track (Mosport). I ran the Yamaha in the 250 race (DNF - ignition) and the Vincent 500 (also DNF) in the same race with Agostini and Hailwood. (The Vincent belonged to Coburn Benson, now of Limerick ME -- anyone here know him? He's into Stanley Steamers now I hear.)

I actually won a race at Mosport, the two guys that usually beat me weren't there that weekend haha.

[Johnny B]

Frank "Camelhairy" (USCRA #33, getting the meatball flag from me) is over at the Vintage Lists.
I'll post the picture over there and see what he says. #55 is most likely Roger Reiman.

[Johnny B]

[spydah]

Wonder if Owens took the pics

[Johnny B]

From Frank Camillieri:

Probably the 1968 combined am/expert 250 race. That is the TD1C that my son now has. You notice that Nixon and Winters (21) had factory frames and fairings that we couldn't get till the next year when the TD2's were available. I made expert the next year.

[BMFR6]

thats awesome. i love these "historic" threads. well done pete.

[Johnny B]

Wonder if Owens took the pics

He didn't show up until about ten years later. Here he is at the 1980 Loudon Classic, wearing a headband. First runner-up in the big hair contest behind Mike Velasco (Standing with #8 Freddie Spencer's bike) is LRRS Asst. Race Director Alan Hathway, standing with Nick Richichi's bike. (#53)

[whynot]

Frank "Camelhairy" (USCRA #33, getting the meatball flag from me) is over at the Vintage Lists.

Great -- thanks -- what's the URL of the Vintage Lists?

Kurt

[Johnny B]

Great -- thanks -- what's the URL of the Vintage Lists?

Kurt

The no nonsense, official group:
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/USCRA/

If you are considered warped enough, you could also be inducted into the Skulls:
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/skullsgroup/

USCRA automatically admits you, Headskull Dugie admits members on a case by case basis. Being a Communist helps.