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[Scott Parker]

[Robert Luland]

Everybody should have one of these in the garage. I figure that painted lines?

[schmittm]

Line Painter

That line painter is quite the rig. It looks like they just bolted the whole painting platform to the back of 35 ServiCar, it still has the tow bar on the front fork. The sprocket for the final drive appears to be bolted to the original servi brake drum and axle. The thing that puzzles me is that the engine seems to be a VL. Any guesses?
mike

[aka HAWG]

looks like an Indian - look at front fork, horn and no shift/shifter gate on fuel tank

aka HAWG

[cheifrider]

aint that air horn injun to?

[schmittm]

Dispatch Tow

Now that I actually looked at it a little closer you're right Hawg, its an Injun Dispatch Tow. Same deal though, they just took the box off and stuck the line painting rig on the back.

[BPK!!]

Line Painter

My guess, its a Goulding commercial unit attachment to the Indian dispatch tow! I wonder what would happen if you pop the clutch-that rear end looks a little heavy!! Probably make for a crooked line-BPK!!!

[exeric]

I believe it's a Chief with a Goulding rear car attached. Scouts of that vintage didn't use that front fork and it has a full rigid frame.

[Jerry Wieland]

Its a Traffic Car isn't it. Jerry

[aka HAWG]

did indian make a traffic car with a cheif set up ??? or is this a major mod at the factory or elsewere???

aka hawg

[exeric]

I was looking at the Goulding "Gouldcar" that attatched to the Chief and it is different. The Goulding setup used a drive shaft and right angle drive unit. The picture that Scott posted has a counter shaft with chain and the frame looks a bit more "homebuilt" than the Goulding. I seem to recall the Traffic Car that Jerry Wieland mentioned and he's probably correct. Jerry Hatfield would know.

[Jerry Wieland]

Dispatch Tows were Scout based and Traffic Cars were Chief based. To make a Traffic Car Indian built a special rear drive unit that fit in the rear of the Chief frame the same way that a wheel and brake did. I believe it even used the stock brake and linkage. The only way you can tell a Chief frame from a Traffic Car frame is that the frame serial number is punched in at the seatpost instead of the rear frame stay - no serial number difference that I am aware of.

Jerry

[Jerry Wieland]

Here is a Goulding kit on a HD knucklehead that was at Davenport this year. Chain drive to a 90 degree gearbox and then a shaft to the rearend.





I don't think the Chief needed a gearbox as it seems to drive from the Traffic Car rear.

Jerry

[c.o.]

I'm a little late on this as Jerry seems to have pegged it. It definitely looks like a circa '36 ish Traffic Car with a mod or two for line paintin'....... Cool pic Scott!

[c.o.]

I hate to change the subject but I found this pic today in a stack of photos at a local antique store. Any ideas? I've got a theory but I haven't followed it up. On the back is a hardly legible name and then "sitting in a sidecar pointing to Dublin".