Dan's Tri-Magnum
My Toys!
Or; "How I spent my life savings..."
(and boy am I having fun!)
Updated March 14, 2002
"The only difference between a man and a boy is the cost of his toys..."
That's absolutely true. Here are a few pictures of the present contents of my toybox. My bike; an '87 Honda VF-700 Magna. Liquid cooled, shaft drive. Back in '93 a drunk driver ran a redlight as I was going through the intersection. The bike was almost totaled, but as my own injuries were healing I had the bike rebuilt. New gas tank, radiator, front forks, handlebars, front rim & tire... The list went on and on. Repairs ran upwards of $2500. I wound up paying almost as much for the re-build as I had for the bike itself.
Another photo of my bike. She's a sweet machine. 0 to 60 in less than 100 feet- and in less than 7 seconds. The best crusing speed seems to be 70 MPH at which the gas milage averages 30 MPG.
Here's a pic of the '70 VW Dune Buggy that I bought on my last vacation to Daytona Beach. You know, most guys would content themselves with a few sea shells and a T-shirt, but me? When I buy a souvenir, I just don't fool around! [grin]
What happened was that my girlfriend and I had spent a week at the beach and had stopped to visit one of her best friends who lives near Daytona.
This friend's husband builds hot rod pick-up trucks as a hobby and had this dune buggy sitting in the driveway alongside two of his project trucks and the family cars. I made the mistake of shooting off my mouth; I said that he should let me know whenever he got ready to sell the buggy, I'd buy it. His wife grinned from ear to ear and he handed me the keys. It seems that she'd been after him to thin out the vehicles parked in the yard and he haddn't used the buggy in over a year. So I wrote him out a check, rented a truck, and hauled the buggy home.
I had to replace all the bushings in the front end and add a little weight to it to make the steering safe for the highway. I've also had to have the clutch rebuilt, recently. At the moment, I can't find points to fit the old distributer, so I'm thinking about replacing it with one that I can get points for, a more up-to-date part.