On the road again with Old Skool Road Show.....
Old Skool Road Show is a unique traveling motorcycle museum. If you haven’t seen it at one of the recent shows you’ve attended, you are missing an opportunity to see a really amazing collection of vintage motorcycles. Old Skool Road Show has a busy schedule this year and will be participating in shows all over the country.
Alan Smith, owner, collector,
traveling banshee, vintage information guru, picker, racer, biker and all around good guy. Canadian born, he moved to Ohio at the age of seven and was there until his family moved to southwest Florida and settled in Punta Gorda. While living in Florida he discovered motorcycles at a young age and bought his first Pan-head at 17. When he turned 18 he relocated to Cape Coral where he became established, started a family and a successful
business for the next 20 years. During that time he began collecting classic cars and bikes in earnest while simultaneously traveling extensively in Northern Europe. He fell in love with Norway and Sweden and joined a top fuel motorcycle race team as crew chief and sponsor. As his travels took him through some remote farm lands he had his own original version of “American Pickers” and was able to purchase several forgotten vintage Harleys and Indians for his own collection.
As the collection grew in Cape
Coral, Alan opened a museum called Timeless Treasures Antique Motorcycle Museum. He eventually decided to take the show on the road, and Old Skool Road Show was born. Alan purchased a classic 1986 Freightliner car carrier to house the 13 vintage Harleys and Indians as well as a 1957 Chevy Bel Air station wagon. It was at the 2010 Thunder Beach Spring Motorcycle Rally in Panama City that he realized the love of vintage bikes had found its place and its time.
This year marks the third year of Old Skool Road Show and Alan shows no signs of slowing down. Alan has acquired a crew of bike enthusiasts to help him take the show on the road. There’s Vidar Normdo, the viking mechanic from Norway, Kevin “Chevron” Winnegar, the brawn from Connecticut, and Connie Bruno, promoter/ artist from Florida “the east coast baby”. Together they make up Old Skool
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Road Show, having fun, educating the public on vintage motorcycles, bringing smiles with rides, and keeping this slice of American motorcycle history alive and well and running!
Old Skool Road Show proudly
displays some vintage machines! Their oldest bike, a 1914 Single HD, was purchased in Orlando and was found in a pioneer auto museum in South Dakota. The 1917 Twin HD was from Herning, Denmark and became part of the caravan after a 29 hour trip from Norway to Denmark and a year and a half wait. It finally arrived in the U.S. in June of 2009. The 1919 Twin HD came from Skreia, Norway and sat in the HAWGS Motorcycle Clubhouse in Norway. The 1920 Twin HD came from Cross Key, PA from a private collector. The 1925 Sidecar Twin HD was found in Smogen, Sweden from a private owner.
1928 Sidecar Twin HD came
from Hamar, Norway. It was purchased in the winter time and to get it back to Norway Alan had to put skis on the front and side car tires and snow chains on the rear drive tire. It arrived in the U.S. with the skis in tow. The 1929 Sidecar Flathead Twin HD was found in Honnebostrand, Sweden, was disassembled and kept in a basement next to the 1925 until Alan returned to Sweden the following trip to bring them both back to the U.S. The 1934 Single 500 HD was found in a barn in Tedmark, Norway and is considered a very rare bike. The 1948 EL Panhead HD was a U.S. find in Petersburg, Virginia
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