Those are nice memories :-)

I was lucky that dad was in to motorbikes, he owned 32 between being demobbed from the Royal Navy in '46 and his last one in the early 1960s, including BSA, AJS , Matchless and Triumph but also 2 Vincents, Arial Square 4 , Rudge Ulster and the Brough. Also I had an uncle in Canada who sent me "Time" and "Life" magazines in the 1950s so I got a hunger for American cars and have owned them since 1979.