Somewhere in the Mojave Desert around 1971

[Ben Egbert]

This is me on the right, on a G85 Matchless Matisse 500. It would be a classic today, the last of the English thumpers.

Not me behind the camera, it's a slide I bought from the guy who stood by the track taking pictures.

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• Ben Egbert
• Aug 25, 2017
• 1

500 Matchless Matisse circa 1971, somewhere in the Mojave desert.

 

[ckcarr]

Cool Ben.
I too have some vintage (now yikes!) motorcycle shots from the 1970's in my early days in Gunnison.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Right, I suppose that 400 Husky on the right is also a vintage these days. I also had one of them.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here's an even older shot around 1954, I got this Whizzer engine in a cardboard box around 1954 from my future brother in law. I put it together and got it running. Here you see my working on it.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Ben,

That's super cool, and some really neat history you have there.

Jim

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Jim, I thought it would be good for people in the forum to have a bit of connecti9on. Craig inspired this line of reasoning with his exotic vehicle posting..

 

[MayD]

Cool!!!