I got this old VF700 from the original owner. Hang out with me for a bit and let me tell you about my latest Junkyard Dog the Brotherly Hate Machine.

In the beginning there was a young gentleman from S.C. who loved motorcycles & drag racing. So he decided to combine the two using a machine that really was an odd choice for quarter mile sprints. A 1985 Honda Interceptor VF700. This bike was a true street & strip warrior, with just a few minor mods to perk it up so that it was equally at home on the street or the track.

This is how it looks now.

At one point this motorcycle was stolen, so the owner bought himself a new 1987 VFR700 to replace it. As fate would have it over a year later the police recovered this machine in wrecked non running condition and somehow it wound up back home with its owner. Who rebuilt it and got it running & looking fantastic again.

At some point he bought himself a parts bike, an 83 VF750 Interceptor, but apparently didn’t need too many parts off of it because it’s sitting in my shop right now with a struts replacing the rear shock and what looks like an old M&H Racemaster drag slick on the back.

Unfortunately life takes its toll on a working mans body sometimes & as the owner aged, work related back injuries forced him switch to easier riding cruiser motorcycles and then finally to a trike, the old Interceptors wound up sitting in the pole barn on the family property, un-ridden & rotting.

You may be wondering why I call this particular bike the Brotherly Hate Machine? Well I had known about & been interested in acquiring these bikes for a while. When I first saw pictures of it, this motorcycle was unmolested, undented & had a complete & unripped seat. But the owner and his younger brother had a falling out a few years ago, and I’m not getting into that here. Unfortunately it negatively affected my motorcycle.

After we made our deal the guy had went to the shed where the bikes were stored and began to pull them out and get them ready for me to load. Unfortunately his destructive psychopathic brother saw him messing with the bikes and came over before I got there and worked this poor bike over. We still don’t know what he did with the sidecovers. After some compromises were made I picked the bikes up anyway & brought them home. Now you know why I call it the brotherly hate machine. I’m afraid I just don’t understand the evil childish mentality of people who perform this kind of vandalism. Especially when it’s an old man that does it.

The original plan was to restore this bike & the 87 VFR700 that came with it. I’ve already started on the 87 but now I’m not sure what the fate of this one will be but I do have the paperwork for it & to be honest I’ve refurbished a lot worse motorcycles in the past.

But I do know one thing, if I restore it the Brotherly Hate Machine will be taken back to Rockingham Dragway to fly down the quarter mile another time or two.