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JUST TORQUE

You’ve never seen another flathead like the one in this ’32 roadster. This engine is one of a kind, full of unique engineering ideas from the nimble mind of Dick Raczuk.

Dick is one of the fortunate ones who can say, “I never went to work a day in my life.” He always loved what he did for a living. Still sharply focused at age 83, he’s been tinkering with things mechanical since he dropped a Cadillac mill into his Model A as a teenager. He has owned several businesses over the years, starting with a go-kart shop in the 1960s. A few years later he owned Kerker, which in the ’70s and ’80s was the No. 1 motorcycle exhaust company in the world.

“We sold 50,000 exhaust systems a year, and we supplied

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