scooterbum46
Well-known member
Thomas - in some of your early posts about the restoration of the garage, there was a Honda with a Windjammer fairing, IIRC in one of the sheds.Hi there Gerry, not exactly sure what Windjammer equipped Honda 750 you're referring to. The Honda's I owned back then were 350's, 450's and a CX500. All had Windjammers on them so maybe one of them is what you meant. The local Honda shop in Champaign was only about 10 miles away from Philo and I knew it well. It was located on south Neil Street. I don't think Rantoul, which was 16 miles from Champaign, ever had a Honda dealership.
I distinctly remember Craig Vetter's early fairing efforts in the late 1960's. He lived in an older 2 story house with a nice big porch on West Springfield Ave in Champaign. We drove by there all the time and I always was on the lookout for his bikes that at that time had full, fiberglass fairings. Sometimes they were parked on the porch of the house. I'd never seen anything like that for street use. They were beautiful! Eventually he developed the Windjammer 1/2 fairing and stopped his full fairing efforts. I purchased what must have been among his first Windjammers that I installed on a new 1971 Honda 450. That was my only mode of transportation for a couple of years, even in the winter! The fairing was made of fiberglass and I had it painted to color match the bike. He soon dropped the use of fiberglass and used a kind of ABS plastic material to construct his Windjammer II's and III's.
For more on Craig and his fairing's, here's a couple of links:
https://craigvetter.com/pages/Vetter_Fairings/1966-Oct 13-anniversary.html
https://ironandair.com/windjammer-fairing/
Thomas
I wish my friend (**** Hintz) was still with us, he passed away a few years ago. He had moved back to the Lansing area, worked the same place I did (he was a computer programmer). He also kept one foot in the Rantoul area, he had married a lady from there who didn't want to move to Michigan. He was also a pilot, and the last few years got involved in vintage motorcycle racing .. Good guy - miss him.
Thanks for the answer, I thought you might know something about the shop and Mr. Vetter..
PS - I ran my '64 Corvair at Stanton in '65 - ran against a flatbed truck that was blowing straw off the back. That was when you had to wait if there was a plane landing..
Gerry


















































