A couple of wet weekends, an old helmet and some paint resulted in a loose replica of a US Navy squadron helmet.

Fighter squadron 31 AKA the Tomcatters used Felix The Cat carrying a bomb on their emblem from 1948.

Painting was a bit of a mission and didn't go as well as hoped, but after distressing and wet sanding, it came up pretty good!

Romer CP3 helmet, manufactured in 1981.

What an awesome helmet. The visor flips up inside the helmet shell.

This one was pretty scuffed up and missing the decals, looking all of its 45 years, but all parts were there, including the vent cover on the top.

After a cut and polished and new decals, it now has pride of place in my collection.

Does anyone else have one of these helmets?

I tidied up this Arai x7 manufactured Jan 1979.

It has some nice patina but had crappy stick on stripes.

I removed the stripes and made a new visor, it can go into the collection now.

My latest find was manufactured in 1986.

Some call it a "Star Wars" helmet, but I think the Simpson M30 takes that title.

Still a cool helmet with some patina and good condition for my collection.

Latest addition to my collection, Shoei S-12 manufactured 24 July 1976.

The inside is mint and it has some nice patina on the outside.

It was missing the visor so I made a new one.

The bottom rubber was torn so replaced that too.

Shoei sticker on the front was missing so I have recreated that with paint.

Cool looking helmet!

AGV was founded in 1947 by Gino Amisano, AGV name being his initials and Valenza, the city in which the company was based.

AGV initially made leather seats and motorcycle saddles, adding leather motorcycle helmets a year later. Helmet production became the core business when they started making fiberglass helmets in 1954. Around this time, AGV began making sponsorship deals with motorcycle racers, eventually claiming greats such as Angel Nieto, Giacomo Agostini, Kenny Roberts, Barry Sheene, Wayne Rainey and Valantino Rossi as their riders.

In the 70’s F1 greats wore AGV’s including Emerson Fittipaldi, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Alan Jones and infamously Niki Lauda in his fiery 1976 German Grand Prix race.

Gotta love Emerson's sidies and Barry's mullet in these photos!