{"id":1191,"date":"2017-07-18T19:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:06:00","slug":"package-heading-to-wheels-through-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/package-heading-to-wheels-through-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Package heading to Wheels Through Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we had to sell my mom &amp; dad&#8217;s house last year we packed up all of the old parts, nuts &amp; bolts, and other remnants of my very first &#8220;repair shop&#8221; set up. \u00a0I just had a chance to go through some of those old boxes last weekend and came upon an awesome find: antique Alimite grease fittings! \u00a0Also found some old brass gas valves. \u00a0These were used on motorcycles until about the late 1920s. \u00a0I don&#8217;t use this stuff anymore but I had a good idea of someone who might be interested&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1193\" style=\"width: 354px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1193\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fittings1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fittings1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fittings1-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fittings1-1024x691.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fittings on their way to a new home!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I shot an email over to my buddy Dale Walksler, founder of Wheels Through Time Museum. \u00a0If you&#8217;ve never\u00a0heard of this guy, you need to look him up! \u00a0His museum is located in Maggie Valley, NC and houses a collection of over 350 rare machines. \u00a0Dale was happy to take these grease fittings\u00a0off my hands and give them a new home. \u00a0They are shipping out today and will soon be a part of another vintage project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1195\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1195\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wtt_logo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wtt_logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wtt_logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wtt_logo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wheels Through Time Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we had to sell my mom &amp; dad&#8217;s house last year we packed up all of the old parts, nuts &amp; bolts, and other remnants of my very first &#8220;repair shop&#8221; set up. \u00a0I just had a chance to go through some of those old boxes last weekend and came upon an awesome find:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,37],"tags":[78,77,63,31,74,79,75,81,96,76],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-from-ricks","category-reviews-opinions","tag-barn-finds","tag-classic-motorcycles","tag-motorcycle","tag-motorycles","tag-restoration","tag-restoration-projects","tag-vintage","tag-vintage-honda","tag-vintage-indian","tag-vintage-motorcycles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}