Here we are in the middle of a Martin Luther King day in the US, and assuredly, the one question on your mind is "Exactly how old are those guys at 'Soup, anyway?".

Well, age is really relative, especially if you're 40, like a guy I know pretty well. On some days, he says 40 feels as spry as young goat, ready to knock down any human who dares bend over to tie their shoelaces in front of him. And then on other days, 40 actually feels like a fitting for the robe Father Time dresses in whenever he goes out in public. At least that's what this 40 year old fellow tells me.

Anyway, to answer the Soup age question, try this: no one at this site actually pre-dates decals. How's that for nailing it down with a niche pop-culture reference?

I recieved a trifecta of old decals scans this morning from Ducati's Paolo Ciabatti, who has one of the biggest racing decal collections in the world. They are reproduced here, and are from the fairly early days of "stickers" as they are more commonly known.

There have been some classic motorcycle racing decals applied to trucks, vans, refrigerators, helmets and the like over the last 40 years. Who can forget the infamous '60s Kawasaki "Kawa-sock-it to me" Laugh-In decal, the Lawson "Big Split" Honda/Yamaha decal, or the Laguna WSC Castrol Honda red-white-and-blue decal? All very fun.

A nice gent I have not seen in a while at Daytona is Henri "The Brush" Kato (who I am now told is unfortunately deceased), the fellow who has painted rider names on windscreens at Daytona for decades. The Brush, an older Asian fellow, harkened back to a time when all of the sponsor and bike logos on a fairing were hand-painted, usually at the track. No one had a die-cut sticker machine at the shop or could run over to Kinkos with a EPS file on disk and get a few hundred stickers made during lunch.

Got an old cool or new/cool sticker? Send us a low-res scan and we'll run some of them later in the week.