And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Astride a Honda SL350 during the time he was filming Big Jake, in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteHe took to the bike, and bought a brand new Honda SL350 later (Dec 1971)
The one he owned is featured at https://silodrome.com/john-wayne-honda-sl350/
The one used on set seems to have been lost to obscurity and time.
Apparently the one he bought was red. The SL has a nice stance to it. I had a 70 CB350 in 73-74 and put a lot of miles on it.
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You meet the nicest people on a Honda.
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