Well, I cut him some slack, because he was also towing a boat behind the pickup. Figured he might be moving.
My favorite Guzzi guy was an old man I met in Winfield, KS, one evening back in 2000. I was gassing up to head on west to Medicine Lodge on my way home from Arkansas and this little old man walking kinda' like Tim Conway's little old man saw my license plate and quavered, "Colorado...I rode my motorcycle all over Colorado." Figuring it had probably been an Indian back in the 30s, I said, "Oh? When was that?"
"Last suimmer." I was shocked and asked him what he had. "Moto Guzzi." I told him I loved Moto Guzzis and used to pretend that my V-twin Silverwing was a Goose. He laughed and told me had one he was restoring at his shop downtown. I followed him downtown into his (closed-for-good) jewelry store and saw the frame, instruments and wheels to an El Dorado (?) from the 70s. I visited him a couple of times after that and got to see the one he toured Colorado on -- can't remember the name, but it had a 3-speed automatic transmission and luggage, the finished restoration, plus a barn full of old bikes he and his son were working their way through one at a time. They had a whole passel of Triumphs, some of the little Italian Harley Davidsons, a couple of Norton frames.
He also was one of the mainstays of the stationary steam-engine movement in the US. Seems he was one of the few people who would restore gauges from those things with authenticity and functionality. My cousin in Winfeild thinks he died a few years ago. Probably went out riding a Goose!