Springers......

[Amphiman1]

i wonder how many are still out there? i have one
0k folks.....who has them?

[jerseybigfoot]

any history on your springer?? any photos??? what shape is it in? I just rebuilt the fuel system on my springer and maybe next weekend we may have some noise from the beast.

[Don]

I have the Gerber's machine: the "Bad A$$". No power plant, though.

[whipper-ag]

Let's see some pic's Amphiman1

Whipper

[jpswift1]

Hey Whipper, you can see the "Country Bumpkin" in these shots that 6x6World member "Techfx" posted up a while back. It was the turquoise blue color machine. In the second picture you can just see a corner of the nose of it. Did you ever see it win a race at any of the races you were at? I have a feeling that we will be seeing pictures very similar to these in Ashtabula next year

[techfx]

Hey Whipper, you can see the "Country Bumpkin" in these shots that 6x6World member "Techfx" posted up a while back. It was the turquoise blue color machine. In the second picture you can just see a corner of the nose of it. Did you ever see it win a race at any of the races you were at? I have a feeling that we will be seeing pictures very similar to these in Ashtabula next year

And you can Add .... was rootin in Dad's magazines -

[whipper-ag]

Hey Whipper, you can see the "Country Bumpkin" in these shots that 6x6World member "Techfx" posted up a while back. It was the turquoise blue color machine. Did you ever see it win a race at any of the races you were at?

We quit racing in '74 & of the springers we saw racing then, the Country Bumpkin was not one of them. These are the first pics of it that we've seen.

Whipper

[Don]

Hey Whipper, you can see the "Country Bumpkin" in these shots that 6x6World member "Techfx" posted up a while back.

There's the "Bad-A$$" in the front of the line, too.

[jpswift1]

Don, will we be seeing the "Bad-A$$" at Ashtabula next year?

Whipper, now that you mention it, I think the 'Bumpkin must have been a later built racer because painted on it was "1994 Champion" or something along those lines, so it most likely didn't appear until after you got out of racing.

[Don]

Don, will we be seeing the "Bad-A$$" at Ashtabula next year?

If I can find a suitable power plant by then, absolutely.

Does anyone know who built and raced the 'bumpkin?

[jpswift1]

Don, I don't know who was the pilot for the 'Bumpkin, but I do recall seeing a tag on the side of it from a metal and fabrication shop in Pennsylvania. I guess that place professionally built it, but I don't know the name of the shop off hand or who they actually built it for. I'll check the next time I see it and let you know.

[techfx]

I just emailed Mike an old 3 and 4 wheel action article from 1988 w/ the six wheel race at Ashtabula that year to put in the literature section - including the bumpkin (on the front cover). I know they got some of my cousin's names mixed up in the article but, it does list the driver of the bumpkin and some other info. If it's not up later today, I'll have to get that info off my other computer.

[Mike]

Mike, thanks for sending that article in. That was a great read and the pictures are incredible. Here's the link to it in the articles section:

http://www.6x6world.com/forums/general-brochures-articles/3182-3-4-wheel-action-oct-1988-a.html

[jpswift1]

Thanks Mike and Mike, seeing that magazine just made my day! I think we'll need to get some more exposure for 6 wheelers when we're racing at Ashtabula next summer by having some 4 wheeler magazine people there to see what REAL machines can do!

[George]

Very cool.