![]() Click Picture (taken at Del Mar in 2002 with Tom Horton) 1.1 MB PDF file Maggie Thuet, loving wife of Shell Thuet, passed away at home in Victorville, CA on Sunday, 18 March 2007. Maggie was famous for her Flat-Track Tuna Sandwiches. She had been bed-ridden for several years and never lost her love for life or her sense of humor. Shell had been her primary care-giver and missed her vivacious and very spirited company. |
ICON OR LEGEND? A Biography by Mike Konshak (c) 2000 On this web site, you will find the official biography of one of America's greatest motorcycle tuners of all time. The riders get the glory but the tuners make it happen. Shell was responsible for Yamaha's first and only American Motorcycle Association National Championship, by modifying the XS-650 street bike into a 750cc dirtracker, with renowned rider Kenny Roberts in the saddle. Shell's biography was published in 2000 in the AHMRA Vintage Views and in the VDTRA Vintage Dirttrack News and is now in the AMA museum archives. This biography, contributed to by Shell's friends and riders, precipitated in getting Shell Thuet inducted into the 2001 AMA Dirt Track Hall of Fame. The following pictures (left to right) are from 1946, 1953, and 1963.
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