Best purchase in the For Sale section

[Matthew N. Olse]

This section has been up for quite a while now, and a lot of things have been bought and sold on it, I was wondering what good deals members have gotten from this overlooked section of the forum.

The best thing that my dad and I have gotten from it wasn't really something that we bought, it was something that we traded for. Three or four years ago there was a listing for a knucklehead in the For Sale. We contacted the guy right away and it turned out that he had inherited the bike from his late father. The son wanted to sell the bike to buy a brand new Fat Boy from his local dealer. My dad told him to go to the dealer and test ride a couple of different bikes to make sure that he really wanted a fat boy.
The son called us back a couple of days later and said that he wanted a road king because it was a better bike.

Well wouldn't you know that we just happened to have a two year old road king. My dad and the soon-to-be ex knuckle owner struck up a deal and the two bikes changed hands. The bike ended up being a 42 knucklehead chassis with a 46 engine in it. We had a spare 41 knuckle engine laying around that we rebuilt and threw in it, changed the tail light, horn and some other little pieces and had a primo 41 knucklehead!!! My uncle Cary bought it from my dad and rides it all over the place. He took it on our prewar knucklehead run this summer and had a blast. I put a tour pack on it for him, it kind of funny looking especially when he turns on the lights!

So now it is your guys turn. What is the best thing that you have bought off of the site, or what did you sell that was really tough to get rid of?

[exeric]

Matt, thanks for posting this topic because it gives me the opportunity to thank a club member. One year ago I started collecting parts to build a 1948FL. I had a set of tanks that had been hanging on a nail for many years and that was the nucleus of this project. It's been fun going to swap meets and shopping on ebay but finding a frame was proving to be a difficult problem. I guess a lot of people would call me cheap, but 4 grand for a 48 panhead frame is way out of my budget. I posted a wanted ad in our club "Wanted" section and got a call from a long time friend way down south. He said he had an old '48 chopper frame and that it was mine if I wanted it. The frame needed some work but that's what makes it fun for me, so it was exactly what I was looking for. It's always been difficult for me to accept a kindness or a gift of that magnitude without wanting to reciprocate equally, but in this case, my benefactor has about every super desireable, rare motorcycle thing you could want so there was no way I could return an equal gift. After awhile I realized he wanted me to have it and expected nothing in return.

I'm not going to reveal his name because I know he would be uncomfortable with that. I just want to say thanks, because I will never have the writing talent to express how heartfelt his gift was to me. The material value is great but not even close to the personal value. This is what makes the AMCA such a wonderful organization.