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My latest training ordeal in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia,
has finally ended after a month and a half. I'm now doing some training
flights on the 767, in fact I just returned from Madrid last night. I go out
again on Saturday, this time to Athens. This will be my last training
flight, and I have a actual schedule starting in June. What a relief. I feel
like I've been away from home forever.
The only bright spot in training was a chance to get away
from it once in a while. I had the day off one Monday, and went to the
Barber Vintage Motor sports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama. It was about a
two hour drive from Atlanta. What a facility they have. Four stories worth
of vintage motorcycles, several hundred, along with a few race cars.
The collection is made up mostly of bikes built before
1970, but there are a good number newer than that, right up to the latest
thing from the factory. All the machines on display are either restored to a
high level, or originals in such a nice state that it would be a crime to
restore them.
There was a surprising lack of what we would consider
vintage dirt bikes. They did have a small area dedicated to them, but it
consisted mainly of Hodaka and a DT-250. I think they could devote some more
space to what is such a rich piece of motorcycle history in the U.S. That
being said, there were some examples of BSA's and other English scramblers
that had me wanting one.
Since I was there on a Monday, I had the whole museum
pretty much to myself. It was a great time, and I recommend that anyone
traveling along I-20 through Birmingham to stop and check it out.
Check out the pictures!
Scott |
