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TRAIL - BLAZERS EUHIO FEATURES JOE PETRALI ..... ~ A famous name rider of the past was singled out for acclaim by 150 or so early day motorcycle fans at the annual Trailblazers Banquet saturday ni gh t March 25. Joe Pet rali. recor~setter of the board tracks. hillclimbs and Daytona sand circa 1930 was eulogized by Earl Flanders. reading from a list of his p.xploits at the Rodger Young auditorium in Los .Angeles. Floyd Clymer was unanimously re-elected President of the banquetand-bench-racing society and Jim Underwood was re-elected treasure,. A pair of magnificent old Henderson four-cylinder motorcycles was on display to help start the memories flowing. California's oldest motorcyclist, master-builder Earl LeMoyne attended. Mr. LeMoyne owned the fiIst motorcycle in California. a 1901 Orient. This pholll IIIow. moat 01 ttle ......_ . (lbe ::.I_a COIII.'1 catdl all of ttle..) • attendld lbe 3011 aNllIIl Trallbta_. banquel, _Id al Rodier YOUIII AudlllIrium In Los AIIplus on • •d1 25. 1967. Mille .......s· table, from left III rl_t antique molorcycle collec:lDr Herb Prentice; Col. Arl Goebt.. - t , IIUllIrcycle rae. _d f1rll aviator 10 ft, ,.., lbu U.s. mainland 10 Hono/alr, 12("MIld E.-I LIIIoI... AMA DUMPS DAYTONA DUCATIS Watching the greatest road race in the Nation is an unparall el ed thrill to the spectator but to the entrant wbo is forbidden to race, the wbole spectacle can almost make one's eyes moist. "Sill. Bl.aetJt "ebeat _ I a erat &Jaber of ~ ddera lJJ die ZM -.I ~ catealHY .. DlQ"to.a dlts yur __ IIIe AlIA' _ ~fual to paSll these belIatll'Dlly prepared Dacatl. road raeen. OteappoiDted .e.bera or Ibe BediDer llIaft _ _ above lDclude Midlael ~ BW ~ck, Kelt _lb. Jerry CI_t. IlaIillll r.butte IJUIO 8odeW. lIlld Jot. DoIIP. 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Berliner. who had brought five Ducatis to Daytona for the 25Dcc 100 mile race and three for the 200. branded the AMA ruling "unjustified and uotair.· Committee Split It was reported that the AMA commit- tee vote on the legality of the valveactuating mechanism was split. Earlier the AMA had faulted the forks in the Berliner entered motorcYcles as not being production. "My only interest is to promote motor- F ~"6E(l\-"'CirE/. ,.• • •I • \ilo'" NOW AVAILABLE FROII l.lI~£D! '* DICK MANN F.... 5IIecillll.s • Phone (213) 774-1574 Cbrome Moly SwiDI Arm! 7 So. 6th St.. RichlllOnd, Cali!. Tele hone (415 237-4774 I CbuIpI.lIll FrlIllco Fame and bts me- zycle competition.· said Berliner. "However. the committee bas been against us for years. The fork in the Ducalis is interchangeable with any machine since 1958. We bave spenlthousands of dollars \0 fly these eight machines from Italy lnd we bad been told we could compete it Daytona. Jim Tapris of Denve.-. Colorado, __bel" or the AMA competition coamittee. said be bad cerUficatiolJ from the DlJeatf factory In 801_. Italy. that Ibe BediDe.- entries were "standard production.- "These Dueatis are lecal as _ or Ibe olber machines nmnlng on the trae....• said Tacaris. "Personalities eatered into the competltlllll connittee ftIline; acalnst the Berliner GmQII.Unofficially. the reason given for disallowing the Ducatis was that they bad not submitted proof in time that the machines were production models available in quantities of at least 100 in the U.S. Riders for the Berliner team which was ruled out are Jim Hayes. Bob Aldous. Franco Fame. Buste! McCreary. and Ken Hayes. TIley were ail entered in the 25Dcc race. The two Hayes and McCreary were also entered in the Daytona 200. **************. HO.DAS * LOWEST PRICES IN SO. ClL. I &..,.... * * * 6. . . 1 2073 •• Pacific Coall H.,. 1MIIta, Calif. ................... 326-3110 • 775-1102