jayleno and the special

[Scott Parker]

Some intersting videos of Jay at pebble beach with The "Munro Special"..http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/...h_2010/1248351

[Scott Parker]

here is the other one..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9Y_RwEBgw

[Sargehere]

Thanx for the videos, Scott! You always bring interesting vids into discussions.

[Red Fred]

Great Stuff Scott! Thanks for sharing these videos for those of us who don't do TV. It was great to see our bikes finally recognized by the Pebble Beach Concours! Pebble is the ultimate venue of these events, and the bikes actually stole the show this year. Next year will feature bikes of Italian manufacture.
Thanks, RF.

[Scott Parker]

glad you guys enjoy what I have to offer here...I think this one goes along with the thread.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznWO...eature=related Seems like no one remembers my grandpa owning the "special"

[c.o.]

Your grandpa owned that bike??? Cool I'm not much of a TV watcher either so this stuff is great!!! I'm another one that appreciates what you come up with Scott!

[Tommo]

It's such a shame that the bike has been so over restored.
Anyone that truely knew Burt knows that that sort of standard of finish is something he never bothered with.
Compare the restored bike with the one in this photo from, I think, 1969 and tell me that they look like the same bike.

[Scott Parker]

Hey Cory,Do you still have the dvd I sent you ? It's in there, right after the Sears I believe. It' my understanding Grandpa made Burt his windshield as grandpa worked manufacturing plastics back then. Grandpa would have agreed with Tommo. After he saw the pictures of the SPECIAL in Tod Raffertys book The Indian he said it looked blood red.

[c.o.]

Scott, you bet I still have it!! I wouldn't let go of something like that!!! I'll have to sit down and re-watch it. It's funny how the temptation to over-restore a bike detracts from what they were meant to be. I'm thinking both your Grandfather and Tommo had/have the right outlook.

[Chris Haynes]

When Dean Hensley owned The Munro Special he had Steve Huntsinger do the meticulous Concours de elegance restoration on it. Although not as it was when Burt owned it is a magnificent thing to see. By the way Burt had two of these bikes. He brought one to America and kept the other in New Zealand. The same engine was used in both bikes. He would come to the USA with the engine. Install it in the bike and head for Bonneville. After the races the engine came out and went back to New Zealand for more fiddlin'. I'm not sure how the complete machine got left in America. Mike Parti tells me he got to see the engine torn down while Burt was working on it. He said that it had two different length rods in it. A "Speed Secret" Burt called short rodding. Dean Hensley stuck the engine while showing it off at Davenport many years ago. I see it is running again now. We have to find out who did the last engine rebuild to find out if that is true or not.