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    Quote Originally Posted by unsub View Post
    With a Harley motor filled with cement to counterbalance? When I was young my neighbour had one set up like that. Dang that was one noisy bike! It always got my attention.
    No Harley motor at all.
    I will have to dig up a picture and post it.
    I'm sure I have one somewhere.
    I just never thought about taking pictures of my cars or toys back then.

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    There is a guy that visits the Rock Store in Malibu that built his own. It has a VW rear end, a corvair engine, a Harley front end and his own frame.

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    Here is a pic of me(26 years old) and my 1976 1835cc VW trike with a Root blower I built in 1976. Fiberglass body with 20 coats of lacquer paint, tube frame it has NO suspension. The front end is solid with no front brake and there is no rear suspension, it is all solid as a rock only suspension is the rubber in the tires. left foot clutch, gear shift by hand lower left side of frame just behind the fuel tank, One hell of a ride, I'd beat anyone on four wheels for a block.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BIGLRY View Post
    Here is a pic of me(26 years old) and my 1976 1835cc VW trike with a Root blower I built in 1976. Fiberglass body with 20 coats of lacquer paint, tube frame it has NO suspension. The front end is solid with no front brake and there is no rear suspension, it is all solid as a rock only suspension is the rubber in the tires. left foot clutch, gear shift by hand lower left side of frame just behind the fuel tank, One hell of a ride, I'd beat anyone on four wheels for a block.

    Great Picture, takes me back to 1976, do we know where your Trike is now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Willl View Post
    Great Picture, takes me back to 1976, do we know where your Trike is now?
    Sadly no, after I traded it straight up for a 100% stock 62 hydra glide H-D the guy who got it disappeared off the earth to parts unknown.
    The only reason I got rid of it was there was no way to have a passenger and my new bride wanted to ride.

    The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot -
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    Quote Originally Posted by flat6bagger View Post
    No Harley motor at all.
    I will have to dig up a picture and post it.
    I'm sure I have one somewhere.
    I just never thought about taking pictures of my cars or toys back then.

    Doug
    True that.

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    Nice picture. Takes me back too. A couple of years I wouldn't want to do over, but otherwise ..

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    Quote Originally Posted by flat6bagger View Post
    Unfortunately it is no more an Indian than I am a Doberman Pincher.
    They are a glorified Polaris with the Indian name now.
    Doug
    Just wondering what a current Harley shares with a 1940's Harley that the current Polaris/Victory Indian doesn't have?

    Wasn't Harley also bought and sold several times over the decades? Weren't new plants build, new equipment bought?
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    Attachment 15569Here's a red one at a dealership near me.
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