{"id":2799,"date":"2010-10-05T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2012-09-02T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:30:36","slug":"philly-to-denver-kansas-larry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2010\/10\/philly-to-denver-kansas-larry\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly to Denver \u2013 Kansas Larry"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our way back to Philly from Denver, we were coming across the top of Kansas and the skies started to look crazy. We stopped at a gas station and heard there was a tornado coming.<\/p>\n

An older gentleman approached us to talk about the cycles, and told us continuing into the storm was a bad idea. He said he’d take us in for the night. We took him up on it.<\/p>\n

– This is an old pic of Larry racing his 70’s Kawasaki H2. Also raced BSA dirt-trackers.<\/p>\n

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– Larry and his dog.<\/p>\n

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– He let us keep our cycles in the garage during the storm.<\/p>\n

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– He showed us his old cycles that he used to race.<\/p>\n

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– Restored BSA racing dirt-tracker (no brakes if I remember correctly!)<\/p>\n

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– His new race bike. Ducati 999.<\/p>\n

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– Project car. Old corvette fitted with a new corvette engine. He also has a 3rd generation Mazda RX7 twin turbo that he let me and Adam test drive.<\/p>\n

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People west of Philadelphia are overly nice. Him and his wife fed us dinner and breakfast. Can’t say thanks enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our way back to Philly from Denver, we were coming across the top of Kansas and the skies started to look crazy. We stopped at a gas station and heard there was a tornado coming. An older gentleman approached us to talk about the cycles, and told us continuing into the storm was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}