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11-20-2007, 09:44 AM
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Re: Wheelie-Bar by Wham-O
Cool!
Someone posted on the YouTube comments that the commercial would never fly today because of the liability if a kid got hurt. Sad, huh? You need one of those for your car, Myron. 
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11-20-2007, 12:28 PM
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11-20-2007, 02:08 PM
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Re: Wheelie-Bar by Wham-O
Sometime around 1970 I got a bike for Christmas that had a wheelie bar made on it as well as a big sissie bar. I could not wait to get out amd show this baby off. I was pretty fat for a 10 year old, wish it has came with the super low gear set too! We had a gravel drive that was not well adapted for the Jr. Evil Knievel stuff, so some of my best stunts were on the Mean sidewalks of Columbus,NC, LOL.
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11-20-2007, 02:24 PM
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Re: Wheelie-Bar by Wham-O
I remember getting a set for my bike from the catalog of a business called Auto World, I think it was located in Scranton, PA.
Quite an outift, they sold model cars, HO slot cars and also real race car stuff. The wheelie bars needed to have an option that you could purchase a box of Band-Aid's with them too....they did not work well in gravel, specially if there were any fences nearby that had barb wire... 
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11-20-2007, 10:26 PM
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Re: Wheelie-Bar by Wham-O
My Uncle Jim and I made a set of wheelie bars for my Schwinn Orange Crate bike. Sold the bike for $25 years later at a swap meet. Who would have known that that bike could be worth over $2,000 now......
Parachute worked OK also.
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11-20-2007, 10:50 PM
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Re: Wheelie-Bar by Wham-O
"Crate"?
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11-21-2007, 07:27 AM
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Re: Wheelie-Bar by Wham-O
Myron, that is a bike that has had the pedals switched out to a longer stroke pedal assembly. It is good for about a .05 increase in 60 ft. times. You can normally get by tech and not get noticed, but when you get off road the longer pedal assembly has some clearance issues with bushes, rocks, and twigs. LOL, Don Jackson
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11-21-2007, 08:27 AM
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Re: Wheelie-Bar by Wham-O
Regarding the comment about Auto World. Oscar Kovaleski was the owner of Auto World. I met Oscar at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale in '06. He is probably in his 80's now. I told him how I sent him every dime and quarter I earned as a kid to fuel my model car habit. His reply was "I thank you for that. I spent it all on fast cars, fast women and booze." Oscar is now my role model for life......
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