Going 300 -Don Vesco

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  • Big T
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    • Mar 2005
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    • West Slope, OR
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    Going 300 -Don Vesco

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os4otXHqLc4
    1978 GS 1000 (since new)
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    • bbjumper
      #2
      Don Vesco

      This is great video, Back in the early 70's I raced Yamaha DT-250's we got from his Yamaha dealership in El Cajon, CA. Brings back some great memories, Very cool.....

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        • Carter Turk
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          • May 2002
          • 2309
          • Bellingham Washington
          #3
          A very young Dave Despain. Always enjoy the old time "no fuss" commentary by the other guy.
          GS\'s since 1982: 55OMZ, 550ES, 750ET, (2) 1100ET\'s, 1100S, 1150ES. Current ride is an 83 Katana. Wifes bike is an 84 GS 1150ES

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            • Guest
              #4
              Very cool, the man was a legend.

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                • 850 Combat
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                  • Sep 2006
                  • 6018
                  • Spokane, WA, and Hampden, ME
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                  The Norton Club used to use his Temecula Kawasaki dealer as a start/finish point sometimes. He vintage raced a Manx. He also ran it in the 600 class with some success. He won the Temecula Lawn Tractor races on a modified Sears mower. Tom Beauchamp, who repaired the crash damage on my Seven, told humorous stories about working crew for him with a Turbo Offy Indy Car at vintage races. It seems that he was a wild man who would race anything. Tom Beauchamp had been a mechanic/fabricator/tin basher on Indy Car teams back when the cars were metal. He built the skin for some of Vesco's streamliners.

                  I met the man, but certainly didn't know him.
                  sigpic Too old, too many bikes, too many cars, too many things

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