Showing posts with label Harley Davidson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harley Davidson. Show all posts

Friday, December 31, 2010

Coolest damn thing you'll see all week. 1913 Harley, heavily optioned,TANDEM !, unrestored, with a quick history and instructions how to start it. WOW


the bike's options are discussed for the first 5 minutes, then the bike is started up and the procedure is wonderfully demonstrated, step by step. (starts at minute 5:30)
Thanks Mike! This is great!

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Early Harleys and Indians

The above Indian riders were relay riding from New York to San Fran, and I notice there are no front brakes. read about it here: http://www.shorpy.com/node/9225?size=_original

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Harley models by letter designation, correlated to year and type

Model Years Description
D........... 1929 - 1931 45" SV
DL ........1929 - 1931 High Compression 45" SV
DLD..... 1929 - 1931 High Speed 45" SV
E ...........1936 - 1950 Medium Compression 61" OHV
EL .........1936 - 1952 High Compression 61" OHV
F ...........1941 - 1950 Medium Compression 74" OHV
FL......... 1941 - 1965 High Compression 74" OHV
FLE ......1955 - 1965 Special cam police 74" OHV
FLH..... 1955 - 1965 High Compression Sport 74" OHV
G ...........1937 - 1963 Servi-Car with tow bar
GA ........1937 - 1963 Servi-Car without tow bar
GD ........1937 - 1941 Large body Servi-Car without tow bar
GDT...... 1937 - 1941 Large body Servi-Car with tow bar
R ...........1932 - 1936 Low Compression 45" SV
RS......... 1932 - 1936 45" SV with Side Car
RL......... 1932 - 1936 High Compression 45" SV
RLD ......1932 - 1934 High Speed 45" SV
RLDR.... 1935 - 1936 High Speed Race 45" SV
U............ 1937 - 1948 Medium Compression 74" SV
UA......... 1939 - 1940 Low Compression US Army 74" SV
UH .........1937 - 1941 Medium Compression 80" SV
UL .........1937 - 1948 High Compression 74" SV
ULH...... 1937 - 1941 High Compression 80" SV
V ............1930 - 1936 Standard Compression 74" SV
VHS....... 1934 - 1936 Medium Compression 80" SV
VL.......... 1930 - 1936 High Compression 74" SV
VLD....... 1930 - 1936 High Compression 74" SV
VLH .......1934 - 1936 High Compression 80" SV
W ............1937 - 1952 Low Compression 45" SV
WL.......... 1937 - 1952 High Compression 45" SV
WLA....... 1940 - 1945 and 1949 - 1952 US Army Low Compression 45" SV
WLC .......1942 - 1943 Canadian Army Low Compression 45" SV
WLD........ 1937 - 1942 High Speed 45" SV
Via: http://fucdatbirth.blogspot.com/2010/09/useful-harley-model-chart.html

Friday, February 12, 2010

I found a cool website, Mega Moto... I think you are going to love the variety and unique things they post there, here's a sample

the cool tagline of Mega Moto is : Cars, Trains, Motorcycles, Planes, Airships & Other Awesome Modes of Conveyance

A WW1 mobile carrier pigeon coup... yes, that was the best communication technique they had available in the field of battle .
I've posted somehting about this before, and just can't recall what... beyond there was just one that made it through the years and still exists, was a 1920's car but only on 2 wheels, the little buggy wheels are for holding it up at stops

Brockhouse Corgi WW2 camp scooter

1938 Phantom Corsair http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/1938-phantom-corsair.html

Volkswagen museum bus... I hope to find out more about this

Jack Conrad's band... wow, very cool!
Not sure yet what scoooter this is... looks slightly like a Salisbury

the photography of Gaston Jacquin 1935

A lamboghini and wonder of beauty, the 1963 350 GTV

Above, 1971 Star Streak motorhome

Above, something called the Stiletto

1955 Packard Request

1955 Flajole Forerunner

1915 Senate Subway Railroad under the nations capitol, Washington DC

1924 Amphibious Fusetti

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion, one of two to survive, probably number 3 of the trio Fuller made. One was found in the backyard of a Arizona suburb in the early 70's by a Car Life reader after they did a story on the Dymaxions, by a fan of Fullers interesting cars. It wasn't bought by a collector, though Harrah's buyers tried, a couple college students got money together and then let it be shown in Museums in the US... more on this story in another post.

One cool puller, looks like a trailer truck


Above isn't labeled, but looks like a barn find custom


Above the Helica

Above, the 1948 Davis

1910 Ford on Forest Service patrol

One of the fabulous streamliner beer delivery trucks


Above, the Lincoln Futura that Barris based the Batmobile on


Above is a replica by Andy Saunders of the below concept car, the 1958 Ford X 2000

Go see what else they've got! http://megamoto.tumblr.com/