So what do you do with that? kinda priceless, build a period correct bike? Something totally different? or just eye candy on the shelf(as I cringe at the thought)
Since it could be the last fresh WW11 surplus WLD on planet earth, well maybe it "belongs in a museum".. as Indiana Jones would say.. Although this episode is "Raiders of the Lost Crate' instead of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"! '
Nice. As a kid living in Japan in the fifties I'd accompany my old man to a Navy base that had a huge military surplus sales place. All kinds of NOS goodies packed in cosmoline. 45 pistols for 5 bucks a pop. M-1 rifles for 15 bucks a copy. When I was wrenching at a Calif. shop in the 70's my boss had won a bid on a shitload of cosmoline packed NOS pistons for HD 45's. The military would squirrel away so many spares.Gotta love the smell of cosmoline in the morning...
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Godamn gold in them hills…!
So what do you do with that?
kinda priceless, build a period correct bike? Something totally different? or just eye candy on the shelf(as I cringe at the thought)
Triangle Motors and JC Whitney use to sell those surplus motors for $79 a pop.
Wow, find and a half.
Since it could be the last fresh WW11 surplus WLD on planet earth, well maybe it "belongs in a museum"..
as Indiana Jones would say.. Although this episode is "Raiders of the Lost Crate' instead of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"!
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I'd leave it just like it is. There are plenty of other flatheads out there to be had for road use. Very cool piece.
So very true... Built a air tight fiber glass box, preserve, and observe!
42WLA Series 6 or possibly '50-'52 Korean War?
Meh, saw one at a swap in Centreville, MI, they're out there.
Nice. As a kid living in Japan in the fifties I'd accompany my old man to a Navy base that had a huge military surplus sales place. All kinds of NOS goodies packed in cosmoline. 45 pistols for 5 bucks a pop. M-1 rifles for 15 bucks a copy.
When I was wrenching at a Calif. shop in the 70's my boss had won a bid on a shitload of cosmoline packed NOS pistons for HD 45's. The military would squirrel away so many spares.Gotta love the smell of cosmoline in the morning...
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