Fans or Fanatics: Ron B's Fantastic Racing Poster Archive # 2
by SoupStaff
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Here is the first edition from the garage of Ron.
Ron & Mary(1/16)
Kenny Roberts Daytona 200 win poster. The King wore an AGV helmet for a good part of his racing career. He signed with Shoei in the 1990s and now is an Arai rider.
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Yamaha's iconic RZ350
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Raymond Roche is chasing Lawson in this Yamaha dealer poster.
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Chris Carr VR 1000 poster. Carr put the VR 1000 Superbike on the pole at Pomona.
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Chris Carr and Doug Chandler had known each other since they were tykes when they were teamed together on the VR 1000 team. True story: their respective parents came to most rounds and sat under the hospitality tent. However, they did not speak to one another.
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And RC30 streetbike poster with Honda rider Bubba Shobert. Does Shobert own an RC30 today? Nope. Does he pine for one after having raced one? Nope.
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Lawson's FZ750 Daytona win celebrated in this Yamaha poster.
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Eddie Lawson won the first round of the 1985 season in South Africa, which is celebrated by Yamaha in this dealer only poster.
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The Fast by Ferracci team raced the AMA Superbike season and the WSBK season simultaneously. This is the 1992 AMA poster.
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A Team Muzzy poster with riders Thomas Stevens, Scott Russell and Tripp Nobles III.
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A Randy Goss Harley poster ...
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After WSBK at BIR they felt they could put anybody on the event poster and sell tickets. Largely they were correct.
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Yamaha poster of Canadian Reuben McMurter.
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The large wall-sized poster of the RZ350.
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This YZR250 is actually in Iowa ... with Martin Wimmer.
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Is this the rarest Yamaha poster ever made? Printed the same era when Yamaha was considering a TZ700 streetbike, all the Yamaha posters were mistakenly destroyed when the TZ700 streetbike project was cancelled.
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