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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Mon Feb 22nd, 2010 05:45 pm |
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Dave wrote: jeffy ole boy wrote:
You need one of those to go with your Mustang car Davo,   For $5,000.00 I could pick up a decent Shovelhead Jeff... Oh yeh Dave - I only gave $5900 for this TC Superglide.. I was hitting on the similarity about both being Mustangs.. Besides being only a 150 cc's more like a scooter than a motorcycle, lol!
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Dave
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Posted: Mon Feb 22nd, 2010 01:18 pm |
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jeffy ole boy wrote:
You need one of those to go with your Mustang car Davo, For $5,000.00 I could pick up a decent Shovelhead Jeff...
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Mon Feb 22nd, 2010 01:01 pm |
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| You need one of those to go with your Mustang car Davo,
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Dave
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Posted: Mon Feb 22nd, 2010 12:30 pm |
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Hope this takes off. Never rode one. But, I've seen several at shows over the years....
La Verne scooter maker revives Mustang motorcycles
By Matt Wrye, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/20/2010 01:48:04 PM PST
A 1953 Mustang motorcycle is seen in the foreground as Steve and Maureen Seidner stand among the new scooters that are modeled after the old Mustang motorcycles at The California Scooter Co. in Pomona February 9, 2010. (Thomas R. Cordova/Staff Photographer)
The Mustang motorcycle is being brought back to life.
"Everybody loves motorcycles and dreams about them, but they don't wanna' get a big bike," said Steve Seidner, owner of California Scooter Co. at Brackett Field Airport in La Verne.
"When they see this, they want one."
Seidner is trying his hand at making and selling a motorcycle that hasn't been produced in almost 50 years.
The last Mustang rolled off the original production line at Mustang Motor Corp. in Glendale in 1963.
An aircraft parts manufacturer, Gladden Products, created Mustang Motor Corp. after World War II to make a smaller motorcycle that would appeal to a broad market. More than 20,000 Mustangs were produced.
As the owner of Pro-One Performance Manufacturing Inc., Seidner is used to customizing motorcycles, transforming them into sleek beauties for hard-core biker enthusiasts and classic collectors.
But the recession has knocked down sales so much, the entrepreneur needed to diversify.
"It's really a universal bike for everyone," he said of the $4,995 Mustangs his company makes.
The 240-pound chrome work of art looks like it popped out of a vintage magazine. It has a 150cc engine, letting riders reach 60 mph.
Seidner says his target customer market keeps growing. First, it was the old-timers crowd, the people nostalgic for the original Mustangs.
Now it's the college student, the inner-city professional who
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doesn't own a car, and the retiree who wants to rev up his life.
California Scooter Co. is already selling Mustangs direct to consumers, but Seidner is working on building a dealer network.
"We could probably handle four or five good-size dealers," he said.
He plans on going international, too.
The company offers the Pony model right now in three styles - the Classic, with a sharp red-and-black body; the Greaser, a stylish 1950s black-and-silver option; or the Babydoll, which is pink and white for women.
Soon enough, Seidner foresees bringing back other models that made Mustangs popular in their heyday - the Bronco, Thoroughbred and Stallion.
Former Mustang Motor Corp. manager Jim Cavaunagh is wishing Seidner the best. He worked at the Glendale company from 1949 to 1962.
"I remember when the Honda threat was real," Cavaunagh said.
By the early '60s, Honda motorcycles were out-pricing U.S. motorcycles.
"We had a loyal dealer network, but knew Mustang days were soon to end," he said.
For Seidner, the Mustang days are just beginning.
He's ready to re-introduce this piece of American history in a new way that just might make bikers out of your average teenager, young couple or senior.
"All these guys who rode motorcycles back then, this is what they learned on," Seidner said. "It's what they cut their teeth on."
California Scooter Co.
800-884-4173
http://www.californiascooterco.com
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