lol, nothing like the latest challenge around me.

 

Well . . . my Heritage is still in the repair shop in Texas. Even if it gets finished soon, I will have to get my son-in-law to pick it up for me because I am in Wisconsin until October.

What's the current challenge? Looking back through the threads, it's a bit confusing. I think this is it, but please correct me if I am wrong.

 

Rode the last 3 weekends, just haven't seen any numbered racing bikes.

 

The numbered bike. That’s what it was ya I’m too lazy to back up and see what it was. I just knew it was one i would not be able to get 😎. No race tracks around here and anyone with cash to own one

 

Looks like I’ve killed this thread with the race- bike. If it’s acceptable to the group, how about a change to: your bike with any vehicle that’s numbered? Car, truck, taxi, bus, emergency vehicles.....any numbers except a license plate! Ok with everyone ?

 

A purported former race bike of Ben Goddy, the bike's current owner, and the '96 FLSTN.

NEMRR Race weekend @ NHMS.

Next challenge, if I may: Your Softail pictured with a pre-1974 Saab Model 93, 96, 95-wagon, or Sonnett (preferably first-gen, but a III will suffice). Any car, any condition.

 

Maybe it's just me but, I find this challenge a lil over the top. Not everyone is a car buff, and I'm betting a bigger percentage of what you just rattled off, most may have seen but will not recognize what you're asking for.
Just saying.

 

Pardon me, sir, seems the only thing rattled is you. It’s just a game, man; after all, is it not referred to as a "challenge"?

I was fueling the cage at a service station one day earlier this summer, and an elderly gentleman on the other side of the pump was doing the same. A seeming well-traveled and kind soul, was he. I believe at a time he worked with Doctors without Borders.

We began a benign conversation about fuel prices that led to the subject of fuel economy. This reminded him of a car he once owned with excellent fuel economy. He said sometime in the 1960s, he returned from work in Africa and bought a used car, a Saab 93.

Being I was familiar with the make and some iterations of the model, he and I expanded the discussion. He reminisced about quirky features, such as the freewheeling function operated by a handle front-and-center, low on the firewall beneath the dash. He also quipped about the challenges of operating such a vehicle while many gas stations did not stock the oil his two-stroke engine required. He was amused and pleased to stumble on someone with whom he could recall a familiar chapter in his life, and it brought him smiles and peace. I was similarly entertained and honored to speak with a man who actually owned one as a daily driver. That conversation made his day, in that moment, which in turn, made mine.

Often, people with motor interests have interests in more than just motorbikes. If such a suggested challenge upsets you so terribly, do with it what you wish. It matters not to me.

I find the suggested challenge to be specific but not narrow. Its intent was maybe to generate interest, or begin discussions, or even have researching and participating parties post a photograph or two meeting said challenge. I thought that was the intent? Broadening horizons, forum dialogue. Perhaps a return to rainbows and sunsets is in order.

Otherwise, here is an example of one seen in its natural habitat, and an enthusiast enjoying it. Happy motoring, of every manner!

 

Apologies, you obviously have mistaken my comment as perhaps sarcastic and rude, in which I assure you was not my intent. Finding cars like these are not a common occurrence, one would have a more successful chance at finding a needle in a haystack. At the risk of how you take this. (IDC) I seriously could've done without the monotonous details of a conversation you had with some ole man at the pumps. If I may be so bold to correct you? I would be titled as "one" not "thing" as you stated in the first sentence of your colorless post.
I will leave this thread, offering good luck to those who are fortunate enough to locate the great white buffalo. But we can always play tag.

 

Since "any condition" was included in the 'challenge',
I'll have to admit that my first thought was to check the junkyards....

Yes, this is an attempt at levity,

T.