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Offline Jinxracing

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Vetter fairings with stashboxes!
« on: June 23, 2010, 02:06:58 PM »
I was recently talking on the phone with my uncle and he told me an interesting story about working for Craig Vetter in the mid '70s.

On a dark and stormy afternoon sometime in 1975, after having driven two days straight from a hippie commune in Missouri, my uncle showed up on Vetter's Illinois doorstep asking for a job. Luckily for him, someone had just quit and he got hired. This was in the early days when they were still making the fairings from fiberglass with a chopper gun (he says later fairings were made from molded plastic).

My uncle's job was to assemble the inner and outer halves of the fairing together with epoxy. A week or two went by, they decided that he was "cool", and he was asked to add concealed stashboxes to the occasional fairing. My uncle, being a subversive type, gladly agreed. The secret compartments were hidden deep inside the fairings near the headlight bucket, usually accessed by reaching through the built-in pockets. Sometimes as small as a film canister, sometimes much larger, they were built to hold firearms, illicit substances, etc. and 'glassed in such a way as to be (hopefully) unnoticeable by the prying fingers of authority. Apparently they were pretty effective, as he never heard of anyone getting caught with something illegal in their secret Vetter stashbox.

So, if you have a Vetter fairing, check inside...who knows, you might have a dusty old joint or two rattling around in there!
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Offline Inigo Montoya

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Re: Vetter fairings with stashboxes!
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2010, 03:30:44 PM »
With a cavernous as my vetter is, I think I can already reach up to the bucket!

Offline gnarlycharlie4u

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Re: Vetter fairings with stashboxes!
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2010, 08:27:52 PM »
lol i'm glad to know that i'm not the only one with this idea. ;D

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Re: Vetter fairings with stashboxes!
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2010, 03:40:27 AM »
When we went to Mexico.... I used the area forward of the boxes to stash two inner tubes, a set of cables bulb's, points plates and plug's.....

Then I used the left box to hold my COOLER with 3 count them... 3 Ice cold Diet Cokes....

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Offline kirkn

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Re: Vetter fairings with stashboxes!
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2010, 10:44:33 AM »
Hmm....  I've owned two Windjammers over the years.  Never looked inside either one.  Wish I'd known...  :)

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Re: Vetter fairings with stashboxes!
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2010, 09:40:41 AM »
Checked inside one I have sitting in the basement.  Nothing!  Looks like I'll have to roll my own. ;D
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