In the article Von Dutch mentions that his sidecar for the XAVW is under construction. He built the sidecar when he was in Calabasas with the intention of having his horse ride round in it with him. Well..... it didn't work, and that's when Dutch got so pissed off that he took the XAVW and completely dismantled it leaving it piled up in a corner of his workshop.
Ed Roth later ended up with the XAVW after doing a deal with Dutch for $1500 (or a couple of vintage outboard motors, depends on who's telling the story)
“I make a point of staying right at the edge of poverty. I don’t have a pair of pants without a hole in them, and the only pair of boots I have are on my feet. I don’t mess around with unnecessary stuff, so I don’t need much money. I believe it’s meant to be that way. There’s a ‘struggle’ you have to go through, and if you make a lot of money it doesn’t make the ‘struggle’ go away. It just makes it more complicated. If you keep poor, the struggle is simple.“
–Von Dutch
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