Sideburn has featured Dan Mahony's dirt track photos since issue one. He photographed throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s, before moving to
The archive was stored in Dan and Vickie's home and was wiped out by the fire. Most of the animals perished too, but Dan, his wife and mother-in-law escaped, though Dan was badly burned trying to rescue some of the animals.
A friend of the family has set up a Go Fund Me page if you would like to help with any money to put the Mahonys back on their feet.
Many more sad details of the fire are over on Mark Gardiner's online Backmarker column on MotoUSA.com. G
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Jeez - very sorry to hear that news.
All the very best for a speedy recovery Dan.
I hope the scanned pics were stored off-site somewhere. Dan's archive was a gold-mine, the shot of Kenny Roberts, John Hateley & Eddie Mulder is a case in point. Dan's a good feller and very generous with his time. Let's hope the wider community rally around to give him a hand...
Alastair
Dan lives in Missouri, not Montana. He is maybe thirty minutes from my father, in the south central Missouri Ozark area.
I read this on the Vintage Flat Track website a couple of months ago. Very sad. As Justin said Dan lives in Missouri. There is a gofundme page.
Hi Hot Shoe
I had already corrected it to Missouri and the whole point of the post was to point people to the Go Fund Me page which was in my original post.
Cheers
Gary
Hi Gary, when i read it it hadn't then been corrected but it's no big deal as the point was to highlight the Go Fund Me page and i see no problem with that. Cheers, Geoff.
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