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Title
Strictly Hodaka
Description
I had a 1973 Dirt Squirt as a young boy . The bug had always stayed with me to get one again someday then in 1986 the opportunity came true. Although it was a 1973 125cc Wombat it still was a chrome tanker. Even back then trying to source parts was very hard so I started down the road to reproduce parts . I had no intension to do this as a business or for other people. But over a few years the word got out that there was this guy on the East coast who had parts and that was the start to Strictly Hodaka.
The first few years was hard because we owned two business's that demanded our full attention. One was a deli/ catering business and the other our USDA Sausage company. Both were very successful business's while we were almost slaves to our own making. The deli was voted " Best of R.I." and we were on T.V. for interviews alot from that. Also the sausage company was claimed to be " America's Best" by the Los Angeles Times. That is how we met Jay Leno through the sausage company. In those early years we would head off to work at 5:00am and return home at 6:00pm or later. Once Patti and I finished dinner then we headed off to return emails and calls to do with Hodaka parts. Sometimes our day's did not end until 11:00 pm or so. My hobbie was growing in leaps and bounds.
It was during this time that a guy named Harry Taylor called and needed parts for his son's prototype Dirt Squirt 80 . We instantly became friends over the phone and he then suggested that I might come out to Oregon to visit. I did come out with photgrapher Jeff Hackett, Roger Lippiatt and George Cone- all true hodaka fans , whom I had met only over the last few years while involved in Hodakas. Harry had arranged a barbeque at his house where there was about 50 people who showed up. Most of them were the original Pabatco folks who had not seen each other in thirty years, a reunion of sorts. Talk about being a fly on the wall. This is where our " Hodaka Day's " started, and now look where it is in Mid Ohio as a featured classic display getting bigger and better every year.
Contact
- Patti Stannard
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- Charlestown RI
- United States 02813
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- (401)3645914
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