martini chinagirl pit bike

There's a guy out there somewhere who collects some really cool photos
of usually vintage performance cars and the like.

The Chicane Photo Dump

It's a great site to check out,
few words, tons of high quality pictures.

martini porsche 918

Ok that is all well and good,
but the sidestory of the post is because of his picture of a Martini painted Porsche.

A friend who we'll call Chinagirl Mark,
the guy that has gotten head over heels in the motorized bicycle world,
dropped off a tweaker bike frame to do some welding on.
Dang it if I didn't take a picture of this POS.
It took a week to weld up a couple little holes.

He had a plan to do a pit bike version with the MARTINI logo.
I know the logo but was kinda clueless,
than the Chicane guy posted up a picture of the Porsche.

martini pit bike

He rushed the frame to a powdercoater,
and had some stickers designed to replicate the logo.
The next day Mark sent me pics of his finished pit bike.
It was a weird coincidence as I had just seen the porsche picture.

martini chinagirl pit bike

The bike sold within 24 hours at a local car and bike show in Irvine,
for a chit ton of dough!
Dutchman Motorbikes

Anyway I've got to learn a thing or two from his marketing technique.

TP