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Museum Board Member Bob Coy brought some of the finest motorcycle racers together at the beginning of Daytona Bike Week 2016.

Among the invited guests at Bob and Joyce Coys home in Merritt Island, FL were (to row left to right) Dick Klamfoth, 3-time Daytona winner, 2-time Laconia Winner, AMA Hall of Fame member; Bob Coy, Director-US Classic racing Association, International motorcycle racer, Formula car driver; Ken Smith, racing promoter, Board Member and treasurer of the museum; Mike Gonteski, international motorcycle racer, multi-class AHRMA champion; Eddie Boomhower, track owner, race promoter, motorcycle racer; Butch Baer (red shirt), owner/editor Motorcyclist Post Monthly, motorcycle racer; Ed Fisher, 1953 Laconia winner, Triumph Factory Rider, AMA Hall of Fame member; Carl Williamson, motorcycle, sprint car and formula car racer; (bottom row left to right) Buzz Cantor, AMA Hall of Fame member, motorcycle racer, publisher of American Iron magazine among others; motorcycle racer, sprint car driver; Doc Batsleer, USCRA and AHRMA class champion, promoter of Harley vs Indian wars. Present at the function but missing from the photo: Charlie St Claire, promoter of Laconia Motorcycle Week and Dick Berggren who took the photo.