GEORGE

George is no longer with AMO having fully retired and now living outside of the area. We leave him up in tribute to his committment and dedication to rider training. Many didn’t know that under his quiet and peaceful manner of a wonderful elderly man lived an highly competitive, agile, and fast stock car driver who once hounded other drivers in the So Cal circuit…George raced stock cars at tracks in Ontario, Riverside, Gardena, Long Beach, and Newhall area in the vibrant, classic race days of So Cal! That love of cars never left as he owns a Ford Cobra, and obviously rides a Harley. We miss George and wish him all of the best in life for his contributions to us and many others before us!! We LOVE you and miss you George.

How long have you been riding?

60 years

What do you currently ride?

Softail Fatboy

What is your dream motorcycle?

Used to be a D-Rod, but I still like the Fatboy.

Describe the moment you were hooked on riding.

I was 17 years old. First time I rode a motorcycle, I did a wheel-stand. No one showed me how, I was all self taught. I was in high school at the time and a guy brought his motorcycle to school. I thought, “hey, let me ride that thing” and I jumped on it, popped a wheelie and thought, “man this is cool!”

What was the first bike you owned?

Actually, I had a Honda Trail 90 and then I got one of those Polish bikes, Quaski. Not Kawasaki, you know, the off brand. Then I got a Sportster and then a Dina and now I’ve got the Fatboy. So really not that many motorcycles, but I’ve built a lot of cars in between. Cars, motorcycles, boats and kits.

How did you get into racing?

Well, I got involved with a guy when I was was at a station. We had a dino and we checked his car on the dino, I started watching his races to help him. Then I just got involved building my own car and continued to build em, cause you crash them and wreck them ya know. So the best time I had in a race car was at Ontario Motorspeed Well, two and a half mile track, Humglock race. So I finished second in that race. We raced for years, almost every weekend for 10 years.