My friend paid for a hummer in 1955
I was at a friends shop yesterday, and we got to talking about old cars and what not. I mentioned to him that i've always wanted a post-war Harley or Indian. I'm not a big fan of riding motorcycles, but i still want one! So the conversation goes on a bit, and he rolls across his office on his wheelie chair to his desk, opens the droor, pulls out a manual and hands it to me. Its an original owners manual for a 1955 Harley Davidson Hummer! He still has the bike.
The story goes like this: he picked it up after he got out of the Coast Guard in '54. It was just him and his wife with only one car, so naturally he needed another form of transportation. He picked up the bike and rode it year round.(Yes, here in the NY snow) Eventually the motor went on the bike, so he parked it behind his barn. Years later his son attempted to restore it. He took the engine out, and dipped it in a 55gal drum of kerosene. Time goes buy, he finally gets the motor free'd. Tears it all down, buys the rebuild kit, buys the decals for the bike, and that night the barn burnt to the ground. The remnants of the bike are still sitting out behind another barn.
It looks like he may give me the bike. He claims its complete minus the motor. Now a little back ground on the '55 HD Hummers, they were a stripped down version of there main model. I mean stripped, no turn signals and not even a brake light. They were 125cc bikes. The cool thing is that there still based on a full size frame. So i may end up with a cool bike that i can put in any motor i please.
The gears are turnin....