What happened to the '36EL that was in the garage in Oildale, CA?

[Chris Haynes]

Back in the early '90's I was told about a '36 EL for sale in Oildale, CA, a suburb of Bakersfield. My memory isn't positive but I believe it was 36EL1006, possibly 1007. When I went to see it I found not much '36 was left. It had ''36 cases with reinforcing ribs added and '36 air intake cover. The rest was a mixture of later Knuck and Pan parts. Big port top end, Stroker wheels, Wishbone frame, Glide fork, Foot shifter tranny. The deceased owner was a H-D mechanic and supposedly bought the bike new. His widow was in a nursing home and the bikes were at her families home.
The bike was in a garage in Oildale along with a UL hill climber with bad numbers and a '60's? Sportster. I was simply wondering if anyone knows what happened to this machine.

[Slojo]

Chris

Check with the Olsen twins they restored an early Knuckle with a single digit serial number and showed it last year. I think it might have been 1006 or 1007.

joe

[Chris Haynes]

Both 6 and 7 were in So Cal back in the '90's.

[T. Cotten]

Chris!

Which 001,..004,....007.. etc, do you want to track?

You know as well as I that there are more out there than the MoCo ever stamped.
(There must be thousands more '65s!)

If the AMCA Judging program considered fullfilling its mandate, just rostering machines would sort out many, and help to prevent more.

...Cotten

[Chris Haynes]

Chris!

Which 001,..004,....007.. etc, do you want to track?

You know as well as I that there are more out there than the MoCo ever stamped.
(There must be thousands more '65s!)

If the AMCA Judging program considered fullfilling its mandate, just rostering machines would sort out many, and help to prevent more.

...Cotten

Tom,
There are many 1001's. Everybody wanted to own the first Knucklehead. Silly guys didn't realize that the first one was 1000. 1007 used to belong to a guy in Ventura County, CA. I don't know where it is today. 1006 was the bike in the wooden garage in oildale, CA was far from original with heavy reinforcement ribs welded on the cases. If the restored 1006 is the same machine somebody did a marvelous job of removing those welds. Or they are a different set of cases. The 1006 in Oildale was owned by the original owners estate.

[Chris Haynes]

Chris!

Which 001,..004,....007.. etc, do you want to track?

You know as well as I that there are more out there than the MoCo ever stamped.
(There must be thousands more '65s!)

If the AMCA Judging program considered fullfilling its mandate, just rostering machines would sort out many, and help to prevent more.

...Cotten

If a machine being judged is found to have altered numbers it will be disqualified.