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I personally own a 1951 with a very strange history. The bike came from Iran to Italy in 2006, and i bought it in 2016 from the first Italian owner (I live in Italy , btw) , as a gift for myself for my my 60th b/day.
I had any info about how that rare bike could be found in the Persian Gulf...
When i put the photos of the bike on the , now closed , CAIMAG forum, someone told me that it was one of ta btch of 20 or some more bikes that Reza Palhavi, the former Persian Shah, having admired the Chiefs of the US police in a official visit in 1949, asked to Harry Truman to allow the export in his empire. I guess, just after WWII, bikes was considered strategic materials or something like that.. And the same person shown me some official acts about it.
I saved the evidences on my old computer...but a lightning and a subsequent HDD crash, destroyed them.
I asked to the Springfield history museum, but they they have anithing about this topic.
If I remember well, the informed person giving me all these infos had a register of the late 1340 Chiefs, and could be here on this forum.
I rebuilded the bike, with the help of a friend of mine, one of the very few Springfield Indians mechanics in Europe, i guess, May anyone help me to rebuild it's history?
Thanks on Advance
Gabriel
I had any info about how that rare bike could be found in the Persian Gulf...
When i put the photos of the bike on the , now closed , CAIMAG forum, someone told me that it was one of ta btch of 20 or some more bikes that Reza Palhavi, the former Persian Shah, having admired the Chiefs of the US police in a official visit in 1949, asked to Harry Truman to allow the export in his empire. I guess, just after WWII, bikes was considered strategic materials or something like that.. And the same person shown me some official acts about it.
I saved the evidences on my old computer...but a lightning and a subsequent HDD crash, destroyed them.
I asked to the Springfield history museum, but they they have anithing about this topic.
If I remember well, the informed person giving me all these infos had a register of the late 1340 Chiefs, and could be here on this forum.
I rebuilded the bike, with the help of a friend of mine, one of the very few Springfield Indians mechanics in Europe, i guess, May anyone help me to rebuild it's history?
Thanks on Advance
Gabriel
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