To understand the Bike you must first know the two parties involved, I am The builder and conceiver of its whole, the man who twisted the steel and gave life to its thundering heart, who saw a means to an end, to reach its owner's, desired results. My history lives in a world regulated by the speed and power of all things in it, years of building, owning or racing the fastest Boats, Cars, Trucks, Snowmobiles, Bikes or what ever other thing we were into at that time, in this area, made me the one who could bring all the chromed elements together.

The bikes owner, T.A. Bertolucci, is also a firm believer in paying homage to the Great Speed Gods in all forms and functions. He has been a friend and a customer for over 20 years. We have collaborated on many projects over the years, all in the same manner and form, to make metal objects the nastiest and wildest speedsters we can.

As we speak we have already embarked on a new project for this year. It’s a single seat Cole Hydro running a 10-71 blown and injected 572 inch Big Block on Alcohol with a 2-speed Lenco trans, this will definitely be a boat that will “light your hair on fire”.

When we began building Watermelon Whine for T.A. it was to be a simultaneous build along with 58 Corvette he had owned for 25 years, we fabricated a new four linked tube chassis with four corner disc brakes to contain the 6-71 blown Weber carbureted Big Block Chevy and four speed trans. Modified the body and repainted it with a fresh Pearl White covering. The end result was one very wickedly fast Pro Street Car!

The bike project began with the same type of idea, a low slung Pro Street style bike with an over-powering engine, Just the way all things should be, if bigger is better, than biggest must be best, then if that isn’t enough just add a blower!

The engine is a TP 124 Pro Series, Tom Perrone was kind enough to special build this unit for us, featuring a blower specific grind camshaft, 8:1 compression ratio and mild head work it became a perfect foundation for my next trick. Calling upon my friends at Magna Charger I had them build up a blower configuration to work on a 131 inch motor, I than modified the intake manifold to fit my 124 inch unit, the result is a highly compressed intake charge raising the intake air density even higher than normal resulting in way too much torque and power, this combo will put a permanent big shit eating grin on to the face of anyone with the Balls to really lay into this monster.

With the fuel being fed by twin Mikuni’s and fired by the Crane ignition system the engine never falters. Driving all this power thru a 6-speed trans the acceleration and top speeds are staggering.

As with all our projects power and beauty must go hand in hand. The foundation of this bike is a custom Diamond Chassis softail frame built to my specs, then modified with custom metal work through out. There’s the usual Legend Air Ride, Hard Oil Lines, welded in rear fender, hidden lines etc. that have become so common place on high end customs. This was not so, back when this bike was built. LA. wanted a Zoomie style exhaust to go with, the all-business power plant, a digital tach/speedo to know if he should be scared yet.

We added a complete PM wheel and brake package to ensure safety, suspended it with an American Suspension front end and had my guy Bill “Long Hair” Brown at Long Hair Customs mix the Watermelon Whine green and add those always over the top graphics.

From a block away you can hear the whine of this blower motor, you know long before you can see it that something wicked this way comes. Couple that one off green color, the higher than life feeling you get when riding it and what else could you call this beast but “Watermelon Whine”.

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