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Sold US$18,000.00
1954-morgan-plus-4 Project

Oz 4/4 , is that type 40 still in the family?

Dave, regretably no. It was sold in 1977.

Now that's different....
ford-gt-40-wooden-model-4feet-replica

SOLD US$51,500.00
seems like good value

Early days but this is cheap.....
2016-indian-scout

Kinda begs the question OZ.... When is an Indian not an Indian.... Have no idea of where it might be built.... India perhaps...? (-:

Indian are US made .... both bikes and engines .... owned by Polaris the off-road vehicle makers .... Indian were always the 'sportier' bike compared to the Harleys but I find the modern ones too bloaty for my taste.... as are modern Harleys tbf.


K

Thanks for the heads up K. As ever my Luddite tendencies cause me to think along similar lines to you re the bloated aspect of much that is modern, though as ever it seems I am a selective Luddite in that regard, though I try not to be too pedantic about anything much... (-:

At least from 1936 onwards, Harley-Davidson was sportier than the Indian Chief with its overhead valve Knucklehead engine. The Chief continued to have its side valve engine.
On the other hand, the Indian was more stylish, more comfortable (rear suspension from 1940) and was always considered the “nobler” motorcycle by its fans.

Indian and HD fans were rivals, which explains sayings like:

“You can't wear out an Indian Scout, or his brother the Indian Chief. They're built like rocks to stand hard knocks, it's the Harleys that cause the grief.”

Even today, there are Indian fans who tongue-in-cheek refer to the other brand as Band-X or Hardly-Dangerous.

Of course, the Polaris-Indians have nothing to do with the old brand, which went bankrupt in 1953. It's just one of those marketing-driven name revivals. But the quality of the motorcycles is supposed to be very good.

So, while we're talking about the old Indians here, outside it's a blue sky, a golden, warm autumn day, and luckily I can take the day off early today and go for a ride on my '46 Chief... :-)