Here's a database of AMA Museum bikes on-display at one time or another.
http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/asp/classics/index.asp?id=13
Some great reading if you, like me, just like to pore-over info about these old rides. Some real oddballs, race bikes, and just plain rare production bikes.
1929 Indian Scout, the inspiration for the new Indian Scout. Also something a fellow named Munro re-worked, w/some success...
Yes, a bit newer than Burt's 1920 Scout.
And here is the Indian factory attempt to set the motorcycle LSR, taking it away from Joe Petrali's Harley streamliner. It failed to do that by 1 mph. I named it the Goiter Guppy.
Besides being a very-successful H-D racer, Petrali was the flight engineer on the only flight of Howard Hughes's Spruce Goose. Here are a couple shots from the H-D Museum in Milwaukee of the Petrali-ridden Harley streamliner, not much to hide-behind to do 136 mph, in 1937.
http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/asp/classics/index.asp?id=13
Some great reading if you, like me, just like to pore-over info about these old rides. Some real oddballs, race bikes, and just plain rare production bikes.
1929 Indian Scout, the inspiration for the new Indian Scout. Also something a fellow named Munro re-worked, w/some success...
Yes, a bit newer than Burt's 1920 Scout.
And here is the Indian factory attempt to set the motorcycle LSR, taking it away from Joe Petrali's Harley streamliner. It failed to do that by 1 mph. I named it the Goiter Guppy.
Besides being a very-successful H-D racer, Petrali was the flight engineer on the only flight of Howard Hughes's Spruce Goose. Here are a couple shots from the H-D Museum in Milwaukee of the Petrali-ridden Harley streamliner, not much to hide-behind to do 136 mph, in 1937.