Written by Martin Hodgson
Long before anyone had dreamed up Netflix, two seminal documentaries from legendary filmmaker Bruce Brown were being passed down like a rite of passage through the generations. One was the original surf classic The Endless Summer and for the motorcycle mad it was, On Any Sunday. For photographer Anthony Scott the movie that injected fuel into our veins had him as a child tearing across the open fields of Alabama racing his brother on their BMX bikes. Decades later the man behind Enginethusiast and the newly formed The Revival House in Oregon decided it was time to make those childhood memories in adult scale. Built to race the desert sands it’s his Engine #23, a 1978 Husqvarna 250WR with that Steven McQueen smile.
Always looking for new ways to do things around anything and everything automotive, Anthony created The Revival House with a group of friends. ?A few people have asked me what The Revival House is, and to be honest we will let everyone know when we know what it is. At this point, just consider us your friends in Portland, Oregon that you may run into with a camera and a passion for all things engine,? beams the Enginethusiast himself. And in the ’78 Husqvarna he has himself an engine that was still dominating Enduro racing among the emergence of the Japanese 2-strokes and the converted road going British twins, the Husky had the perfect mix of power, lightweight and reliability.

Its little surprise then that superstar Steve...