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Offline steven c

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« on: October 03, 2018, 01:36:50 PM »
 Going through some old photos and found this one of Freddy in front of the shop at the open house.

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Re: Marsh Motorcycle
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2018, 02:12:04 PM »
   :thumb:

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« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2018, 02:33:55 PM »
That is grand!! After reading all about Freddie and voting for him to get into Hall of Fame back in the day, all the stuff in the MGNOC newsletter, finally made it to the shop in 05 or 06. It was still open and I got a T Shirt. I was 7mi away so I had to visit this famous place.
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Re: Marsh Motorcycle
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2018, 02:36:45 PM »
http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.aspx?RacerID=222

He still rode when he was over 100 years old!  That's him on his moped!! :cool: :thumb: :smiley:





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Re: Marsh Motorcycle
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2018, 02:40:03 PM »
I saw him ride at the Monson hillclimb a few times. He was in his early nineties then! I believe he was on a Norton.
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Re: Marsh Motorcycle
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2018, 04:33:15 PM »
Thank you Steve. I'm smiling and getting misty @ the same time. Fred always made me feel like a close friend.
Looking forward to 'Moto Guzzi New England Day'  10/21 @ the Vanilla Bean, Pomfret, CT.  R3~
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Re: Marsh Motorcycle
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2018, 04:57:08 PM »
During the Closing of the shop i ended up wtih alot of items that fred touched over the years.

Soooooo, I have a lot of DNA  of freds maybe we/you can make a second coming of fred.

If anyone is interested Al Marks still has a lot of NOS   Guzzi parts at his house that he wants to move , so if interested l can give his phone # . He lives in West Hartford Ct.
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Re: Marsh Motorcycle
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2018, 06:33:59 PM »
Quote from: guzzisteve on October 03, 2018, 02:33:55 PM
That is grand!! After reading all about Freddie and voting for him to get into Hall of Fame back in the day, all the stuff in the MGNOC newsletter, finally made it to the shop in 05 or 06. It was still open and I got a T Shirt. I was 7mi away so I had to visit this famous place.
I was a MG guy in the 80's in Connecticut.  I'm embarassed to say I never made it there.  There were little Guzzi shops all over back then.  One a few miles from me and one in Clinton I knew the wrench at.  But Freddy was the man and it's a shame the shop is no longer.  It should be a Piaggio, Aprilia, Guzzi shop today!
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Re: Marsh Motorcycle
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2018, 07:03:35 PM »
 Somebody mention Freddie's hill climbing Norton? here you go.

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Re: Marsh Motorcycle
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2018, 04:59:55 AM »






1929 and at the 100th party for Indian in 2001, sitting on the bike from the 1929 photo....what are the odds?
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