Honda XR75

Today's guest post is by Mitch Boehm, Editor & Publisher of Moto Retro Illustrated. It’s an innocuous place, really, a typical Southern California ranch house buried within the hundred-square-mile urban sprawl that constitutes the eastern Los Angeles. The house looks normal enough from the street. But walk toward the four-car garage and you find yourself face-to-face with a very different scenario: A well-equipped machine-shop fronts the garage, and if you peer closely into the guts of the expanded enclosure you see much, much more—several very-trick old-school XR75 mini-racers on race stands, and enough period banners, posters and photos on the...