Topic: Pee Wee Gleason has passed on.

[754]

RIP Pee Wee...

[ofreen]

Bummer.

https://www.google.com/amp/blog.motorcycle.com/2017/02/14/manufacturers/yamaha/rip-dragbike-racing-legend-jay-peewee-gleason/amp/

[MRieck]

He said he hated the name Pee Wee.   I remember the commercials for the V-65 Magna before the V Max. How did he die? He couldn't have been that old.

[ofreen]

Found this, otherwise just the same Yamaha press release repeated over and over -

http://v4musclebike.com/forums/showpost.php?p=319262&postcount=18

[dragracer]

Pee Wee almost caused me to buy a brand new V65 Honda while I was living in Houston. I had just moved there and got a job paying some decent money. Saw an article in some hot rod magazine about the quick numbers PeeWee turned in the 1/4. Honda  Salesman wouldn't cut me a deal so I went down the road and bought a new KZ1000.

[MRieck]

You made the right move buying the KZ. The Magna was a POS.

[turboguzzi]

I was never a 1/4 mile fan, but for a young lad who read american mags in the 80's he was a pretty big myth. 1/4 miles times meant everything back then.

here's the famous magna tv ad

 

[Bill/BentON Racing]

Yes, first year 1100 Magna, put an RC pipe on it for a really good customer, took it out.....at about 125mph that f*cker went into such a tank slapper my helmet twisted on my head, wore glasses then, somehow gathered it up .....told the customer their was a built in MPH limiter with this model. That bike did not handle well at all! Scary and sketchy! Lol.