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43 years of Vetter Fairings! It was October 13, 1966 when I decided to stop talking about making a fairing and actually start making a fairing. |
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| This is where it began: 212 West Springfield, Champaign, Illinois. In the living room, above, was my Bensen Gyro-Glider, my lathe and blue styro-foam roughly shaped into a fairing. |  |
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| We made a ramp to ride our bikes into the rented house. The owner, Kermit Nogle, "looked the other way," bless his heart. He sensed something special was happening there. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Front: Me, brother Bruce, Jim Miller, Mike Walker Behind Bruce: Jim Voorheis and Steve Sanderson | ||||||||||||||||||
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I would ride my Yamaha 305 into the house and strap it down with eye bolts I had set into the floor. I shaped the foam around the bike, making sure I maintained full lock with the handlebars. When I got it close to the shape I wanted, I covered it with body putty and sanded it smooth. Then I waxed it with Johnson's Floor wax (choice of REAL fiberglass experts) and made a mold. From that mold, I made my first fairing. | |||||||||||||||||
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| November 10, 23 days later, my first ride | ||||||||||||||||||
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| February 19, 1967: Most of my friends in the black and white above picture wanted fairings too so I taught them how to do fiberglass. They each made their own fairings from that first mold. We had a deadline coming up for our first advertisement so we had to take take pictures. There was a huge rain/ice/snow storm that morning. It was really cold! We had to shoot anyway. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Thats how it began 43 years ago
Thank you, James, for reminding me |
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End as of Oct 13, 2009
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