| Welcome to Hutchins Motor Sports and the Route 62 Diner. I appreciate your business and I am happy to share some of my memories, memorabilia, stories and recipes with you.
I started riding in 1939 at 16 years of age. My dad and I purchased a used 1930 VL Harley-Davidson® 74 cubic inch Flathead, which is on display on the showroom floor. My dad loaned me $50.00 for the down payment. Payments were $7.50 per month on the $150.00 purchase price. That was a lot of money in those days, especially when dad paid me $20.00 a month to milk 30 cows.
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| We also house an extensive collection of Harley-Davidson® motorcycles and other memorabilia dating from 1912. Not all of it is displayed on our floor, nor on this web site. The floor displays change with time. Come by and have a coffee while you look around and reminisce.
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| 1912 Model 8A "Silent Gray Fellow". This name came from the Motor Company's campaign to keep motorcycling a quiet activity by condemning the practice of opening muffler cut-outs. This earned the term "Silent". The standard color for years was "Gray". Harley-Davidson's efforts to promote it as a companion on the lonesome road gave it human traits, thus the "Fellow".
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| 1930 Model VL "Flathead" 74 cubic inch, side valve. All models were olive green with a vermilion stripe. The VL was made in Japan during the 1930s as a three-wheeler called the "Rear Car", and used as a heavy-duty delivery unit.
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| 1970 Police Servi-Car
From a 1934 brochure: "Servi-Car will handle five-hundred pound loads at a fraction the cost of light trucks or autos".
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| We're not sure where Johnny is now, but this jersey from the Bay City Motorcycle Club in San Francisco — and other, similar clothing — was a popular item in the 1930s and 1940s.
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