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10 | WheelsOfGrace.com | Issue 42 had a young family, could no longer keep it. How honored we felt that he would sell it to us with such a special sen mental a achment to it. We had a great rapport with this young man right away and we promised to give the bike a good home. Talk about an answer to my prayers! We signed the papers and loaded this new prize on our trailer heading for its new home. As I looked at the pink slip we no ced that the Harley was originally bought and registered on Oct. 21st - my husband's birthday - in 1992, which is also the year our son was born! Think there is a coincidence there? Hmmm, with the Lord there are no coincidences! Maybe God-incidences but no coincidences! We got the bike home and over the next several weeks while Clint was busy enjoying restoring the saddle bags, cleaning and polishing the original excellent paint, and adding some of our own nostalgic touches - like the wide beach bars and true dual exhaust - I was looking for a side car. I really wanted to add a sidecar to our bike that would give our retro- looking Heritage So ail that final fun touch! I found someone selling a bucket and frame of an undetermined year. Again, it seemed, we had found a piece of Harley history being sold by a son who had lost his father. And this young man wasn't sure what year he had, other than it was a sidecar with a Harley decal. Clint did some on-line research on sidecars and found that Harley- Davidson had never made a sidecar for So ail models but somehow we just knew that if we could find one it could definitely be modified to fit our bike! So when we went to look at the one I found for sale we went armed with our research so we could date it and found it was a perfect original 1979 Harley-Davidson sidecar! When Clint ran the numbers on the frame and saw it was made the same year we were married, 1979, we knew it was the one meant for us! Too many ironic God- incidences with this bike that have definitely made it our most treasured project to date. We soon found a machinist who helped us make the front moun ng brackets fit perfectly to our Harley frame and with some other small altera ons, a matching paint job, a new white wall re and upholstery work on the seat made this sidecar and motorcycle look like it rolled right off the Harley- Davidson assembly line! We also had a leather gas tank panel tooled with the 3 crosses on Calvary added to tes fy to others of our Savior's love and sacrifice. Clint and I have been involved in ministry work for over 20 years with church worship, music ministry, traveling outreaches, Chris an Hot Rod groups, etc, and always believed we needed to seek those places where we could use each situa on to touch folks for the Lord. Right away we saw this new motorcycle was a perfect tool, sent by the Lord, to reach out to an unreachable group of people by going out 10 | WheelsOfGrace.com | Issue 42