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ended up being the winner."
Don continues to success-
fully race AHRMA events on
that same historic Sprint with Al
doing the tuning. Their fleet of
Harley-Davidson Sprints have
almost as much history behind
them as the Hollingsworth family.
The Seller of Memories
Would you like that Febru-
ary 1977 issue of Cycle World
magazine because of a road
test of a used Kawasaki KZ650
you just bought, or for the
profile of Jay Springsteen and
his mechanic Bill Werner? Then
Dan Huff is your man. Huff, of
Owensboro, Kentucky, had
hundreds of old motorcycle
magazines on display in the
swap meet area of the Barber
Vintage Festival. He was one of
hundreds of vendors and easily
one of the most popular. As I
stood gazing at old back issues,
several people came up and
asked for a particular issue.
"My picture was in one is-
sue in 1974 of either Cycle or
Motorcyclist," one customer
says. "It was a photo from the
US Motocross Grand Prix at
Mid-Ohio and I was standing
there as a fan watching. You
could clearly see me in the
center of the background and
they used that photo for months
on subscription ad cards inside
the magazine. I've been looking
for it for years."
Huff said growing up, like
most magazine subscribers, his
issues got thrown away or lost,
but later in life he began buying
old collections and today he
sells back issues for seven dol-
lars apiece or 10 bucks for the
rarer Dirt Bike magazines.
"I sell a lot of them and it's
mostly for the test articles," Huff
explains. "That's why I set up
a cross-reference for the bike
tests and people come in and
I can look up their bike pretty
quick and get it in their hands."
For Huff the old magazine
business is strictly a hobby.
There was plenty of close
racing action during the Vintage
Festival such as this grouping
in Saturday's Sound of Thunder
2, BEARS and Motard combined
race with Peter Politiek (P59)
leading Tom Wilbert (50R), Ricky
Orlando (94B), Robbie Scudder
(49) and Andrew Stroud (10).
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