As soon as the man left, Kayelynn ran home and dug through the magazines and settled in on the January '78 issue and sure enough, there it was in its full glory. This is where it starts getting even better as someone else's life is about to be changed forever! Kayelynn told his friend and coworker Chopper Jim(but at the time it was just Jim) that Jim should buy this bike so they could go riding together and both have these crazy old choppers. Bear in mind that Kayelynn was trying to talk his friend into buying a complete basket case who had never even ridden a motorcycle let alone a chopper of this nature-with friends like this... Well, the soon to be Chopper Jim bought the contents of all those boxes for ten Benjamins and saved the owner the grief of seeing it through to a running sale. The next year was spent putting it all back together and when the two finally set out for a ride they returned to the shop changed forever.
It wasn't until 2006 that My Dream would be taken back apart for a full restoration. This was the first time Lil' Louie was reunited with these bikes. It really was the need of the art and gold leaf work to be recreated on My Dream that led to them finding Lil' Louie. As fate would have it, Lil' Louie originally did four of the Denvers bikes that reside in the collection in Kingman.
Kayelynn recreated the paint on My Dream starting with a dark red base, gold pearl, brick red candy, and silver pearl with magenta stripes all in PPG lacquer before Lil' Louie did the job for the second time in three decades. The resto is so fresh in fact, they are still working on painstakingly recreating the tank using another and leaving the original alone (which is good!), but have yet to finish the new one. The guys have even taken on recreating flaws in the original bikes and are not trying to make them better than they were and into something they shouldn't be.
Aside from the amazing collection of Denvers-built choppers Kayelynn, Chopper Jim, their spouses, and friends have, you wouldn't know by talking to them that they have been heavy into all things Denver Mullins now for over 20 years. They still speak of it with the enthusi-asm like this all started yesterday-true fanatics and also historians of a very important chapter in chopper history. In fact, they are working on a book about Denver Mullins and his bikes-stay tuned for more!