Showing posts with label Topper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Topper. Show all posts

Monday, September 01, 2025

Harley Topper / Topper Harley


not just a stupid name for a stupid scooter, from a famous motorcycle company that should have focused on only building motorcycles with better quality... but also the name for Charlie Sheen's character in Hot Shots

By the way, Hot Shots and Part Duex, were just released on Netflix, and Job Cryer has a supporting role in the movie, and I hadn't remembered that when the tv show 2 1/2 Men came out

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

The Yankees, instead of using a bullpen cart, used a pinstriped Datsun, provided by the automaker, one of the team's sponsors, then in 1976 and 77, used a Toyota Celica


https://boards.sportslogos.net/topic/89911-bullpen-carts


https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/3/6/18348801/bullpen-cart-makes-its-triumphant-return-thanks-to-arizona-diamondbacks





In 1979 you could buy the #Yankees pinstriped bullpen car out of their catalog, only $8,349.75!


then a Dodge Aries

in 1951 the Yankees used a black hearse from a nearby funeral home.

Harley, in 1959, used a Topper scooter


St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Hal Jeffcoat, brought into the game to replace injured starter Alex Kellner, by County Stadium's new bullpen cart, driven by Harley's John "Freckles" Bonneau, complete with chauffeur's uniform and cap — as the pitcher exited the vehicle and went to the pitcher's mound.



Milwaukee finally got classy though, The last bullpen car in the big leagues was actually a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a sidecar that the Milwaukee Brewers used in 1995


https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/mlb/yankees/2018/03/14/would-new-york-ny-yankees-relievers-ride-retro-bullpen-cart-least-d-rob-yes/426408002/

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/automobiles/a-baseball-veteran-returns-to-the-mound-the-bullpen-car.html

Sunday, May 29, 2011

three dozen reasons to know you'll like looking through Go Away Garage blogspot

Above a WW2 Crosley 3 wheeler
Gas in the spark plugs... wow, that was a long time ago
I think the above is the supercharged straight eight
not good to see your back wheel pass you by
Stutz Blackhawk at Ormand Beach

Steam powered lawn mowers.... your neighbors would freak out.
crew cab model a, custom made


Great old vintage bike stand

They said it's photoshopped, but I don't care
Ner a car

They look like they are bolted to a bar under the bikes, probably a carnival ride



Above is a Willys or Graham I think
I like the van without the headlights, nice custom bodywork look
Private Hawaiian plantation tourist trainride

Morgan, very early I bet
I'd never heard before that Oral Roberts (televangelist) had bought a Futurliner... huh
That helmet is terrific
I know I have forgotten what I used to know about the above dragster.
1906 Stanley Steamer set the land speed record for steam powered cars at Ormand Beach, and that 126 mph record still stands. Steam was obsolete so quickly after Stanley and Doble perfected its use in cars, that no one even tried o break their record
Way cool Triumph gas tanks stringed art. I doubt it plays, but it does look incredible




Gyro stabilized car
Vespa in the back of a Citreon 2cv... awesome

see these and a whole lot more at http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com/ but don't look while at work, there is a lot of hardwood floors and tatays