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Randy Smith's famous panhead rocker covers, "Finned Dishpans," were first made in 1968. Soon afterwards, he was copied and a big court battle ensued in 1970.
The court battle was between Randy Smith versus _________________?
Hint: You can name the person or the company.
The Answer: Tom McMullen/AEE Choppers
8 comments:
I'm gonna guess Tom McMullen/AEE, but I have no fucking clue.
This is Nutz, btw, I don't have a login for this blog stuff.
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but what did AEE do to change theirs from Randy's...
the answer is bob clark u can mail to the 51st state can't you??
quick plz b4 i have to learn to speak european.
anonymous kev
Grant: AEE didn't change anything at all and thats why they went to court the first time.
If I remember correctly (and I think Randy told me this or maybe Tim Wallingford), after the first court battle, AEE went and made slight changes by making a separation through the fins on each rocker box. Some shit like that. Then they went to court again. Not sure how many times they went to court over this.
Er, Tom McMullen and wife?????
Yeah, I heard it was "fixed" (probably not to Randy's liking) with the deletion of a few fins in the middle of the covers...but sounds likely that it didn't end there!
I was there but never got details of the suit. will tell you this we sold a ton of panhead covers both smooth and finned.
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