New Bud Ekins, Famous Moving-Picture Demonstrate Stuntman As Well As Legend Inwards Hollywood Customs, Cars, As Well As Motorcycles For His Moving-Picture Demonstrate Work, As Well As Friendship Alongside Steve Mcqueen As Well As Von Dutch. However, Impressive For His Ain Motorbike Accomplishments. Lets Get Got A Look

Born in, as well as lived in, Hollywood, California, Ekins began riding off-road motorcycles daily inwards the hills inwards a higher house his Hollywood dwelling only afterwards WW2 ended. He was every bit good immature for the armed forces until years afterwards WW2 was over, because he was born inwards May 1930

He was a immature hooligan, non going to schoolhouse afterwards eighth grade, as well as getting 2 years inwards reform schoolhouse for joy riding inwards a stolen car.

He started entering local off-road races inwards 1949, as well as inside a pair years, was the transcend motocross racer inwards Southern California, winning the AMA District 37 entitle 7 times. He used a shovel blade every bit a engine slip plate. Crafty.

Matchless motorbike manufacturing industrial plant life sponsored him inwards the 1952 European Motocross Championship as well as he finished the flavour inwards ranked 15th inwards the world.

In 1955 Ekins won the Catalina Grand Prix, as well as inwards 1959 became the 3rd three-time winner of the prestigious Big Bear Hare as well as Hound desert race, which at the fourth dimension was the largest off-road resultant inwards the country, acre at one-half way, he was inwards the lead, broke a rim, had his squad create it, as well as nonetheless made upwardly the lost fourth dimension as well as won the race thirty minutes ahead of the guy inwards 2d place. For his 1959/3rd fourth dimension win

He hired Von Dutch inwards the early on 60's, as well as that's something I already covered inwards my Von Dutch posts. He also hired Evel Knievel:
‘I never saw Evel Knievel jump, but he worked for me,’ Bud recalled. ‘He was dead broke. I had him changing tyres. He was an egotist as well as that was earlier he got actually famous. He jumped anything – Norton, Triumphs. He was a whore. He was kinda stupid to hit it alongside a Harley, but Harley paid him for it.’

In a pair years, he opened a Triumph dealership, as well as the immature Hollywood stars were dropping by... Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Warren Beatty

Von Dutch painted the sign/lettering on the bldg

Ekins won 4 gilt medals as well as a silverish during his 7 years of competing inwards the ISDT, the International Six Days Trial, a shape of off-road motorbike Olympics.

In 1964, he helped pioneer the Baja thou when he as well as his blood brother Dave did the TJ to La Paz inwards 39 hours on a motorbike as well as was the overall winner of the the maiden Baja 500 inwards 1969 inwards a Hurst Baja Boot

After the starting fourth dimension Baja 1000, Both McQueen as well as Ekins recognized the potential as well as advanced blueprint of the Baja Boots. Solar Plastics, Steve McQueen’s manufacturing industrial plant life which produced accessories for dune buggies as well as motorcycles, eventually purchased both Boots from Vic Hickey.

He was the stunt coordinator for the television exhibit CHiPS, as well as did stunts inwards the Love Bug, Blues Brothers, as well as Animal House. He was a author for Motorcycling Magazine.

Many of his collected bikes are at auction every year, only a glimpse at Bonhams shows half-dozen pages of his motorcycles as well as cars, who states that Ekins was 1 of the USA’s firstly collectors of veteran as well as vintage motorcycles - at 1 fourth dimension his collection numbered over 150 motorcycles as well as was considered to live the almost valuable inwards the country.

In his collection which went to auction inwards 2010 alongside Bonhams, were approximately strange things similar this sign made yesteryear Von Dutch for Ekins' Hollywood vehicle rental business, /search?q=von-dutch-signpainting-i-wonder-if-any as well as things pinstriped yesteryear Von Dutch