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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nyatii, post: 3599626, member: 85686&quot;]Neat bike. I had Norton Apache Matchless. Sure wish I had it now. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Taken in my 20&#039;s at a lake in Western NE. The young lady is my mother sitting on my dad&#039;s bike. I never saw the bike as he got rid of it before I was born. Dad also rode a Harley in WWII when he was with the engineers and tank destroyer section. The bike he had in the war was a gear shift on the floor and he practiced doing figure 8&#039;s with it in the dirt.</p><p><br /></p><p>My bike was a 1949 Harley Panhead. Springer front end and supermax belt drive. The Supermax open belt drive was safe as there wasn&#039;t a chain. In fact way better than a chain drive because you didn&#039;t need the oiler turned for it. That was what always caused all the oil you would see around the old Harley&#039;s. I later put a stroked shovel motor in it with a shortened Girder front end which shortened it a lot. Kept the Supermax belt drive and used a side-draft Weber carb off an Austin Healy. Tuned headers sort of rounded it out. Took the king and queen seat off and replaced with a bicycle style seat meant for the big bikes. The girls got to ride on the fender. It had a really nice hand painted tank with a naked girl sporting wings. Seemed everyone always painted skulls, dragons, and such. I thought why would I want to stare at those as I drove mile after mile.</p><p><br /></p><p>There wasn&#039;t a rice burner in town that could beat it. Never did figure out how fast it would go as my eyes vibrated so much at 150 mph that I had to slow down. And the bike would still be pulling strong. </p><p><br /></p><p>I put a beautiful burgundy wine paint over silver paint job on it and was to enter it in the car show. Sort of lost interest before I got there after having a head-on collision on the highway. After bouncing off the car and ending up in the middle of the highway, I figured the bike wouldn&#039;t do that good at the show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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