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Marketplace => eBay Finds => Topic started by: bishboy on July 03, 2013, 10:01:29 am
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I put a couple of bids on this until it got a bit too much for me, but how cool would it have been to have
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-Bell-Helmet-Gear-Bag-Case-Car-Racing-Motorcycle-Motocross-/171063188593?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=jDCzvJyduppKfU8kCtem3JSEtVE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_39wt_1255 (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-Bell-Helmet-Gear-Bag-Case-Car-Racing-Motorcycle-Motocross-/171063188593?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=jDCzvJyduppKfU8kCtem3JSEtVE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_39wt_1255)
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Wow, I'll have to shine up my Bell helmet bag (purchased circa 1972) and make my fortune. :)
IIRC I paid something like $15 for mine.
cheers,
Michael
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I got mine as some sort of freebie when I bought my first Magnum back in 1972 or so....I've still got it but the zipper's busted. I remember having the Bell t shirt and 'Stroker' hat and beanie too but I couldn't afford the 'too cool for school' red bell jacket.
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I think I wore out my Bell stroker hat though I have a veglia recollection of seeing it crumpled and stained in a box in the garage 5-10 years ago.
I also had one of Carl Shipman's stroker hats that he had made and sold through his "The Dirt Rider" mail-order business, along with the "Rap-on" fork covers and "The Boonie Book". Carl was a fellow member in the New Mexico Trials Association and his son raced MX in our local Albuquerque club (IIRC he had one of those hopeless gray-tank 125 Montesas).
40 years ago seems so far away. :)
cheers,
Michael