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This is kind of a neat story last month on the AMCA Instagram page they posted some pictures of a 1942 Knucklehead…..
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I looked at that bike and thought that looks like the Knucklehead my father had in the 70’s. I noticed it had a Jersey plate on it, and if I see it right the plate is from 1979, which is right around when my father sold it. After he sold it we never saw it again, and thought it was strange it wasn’t at any meets we went to (I’m from Jersey). So I dug out some old photos of the bike, here is one from about 1975…
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I mean how many chromed out 42 Knuckleheads from Jersey in the 1970s could there be? Same seat, same bags, same shift knob, same chrome details, gotta be. So on Instagram the AMCA thanked a gentleman named Jeff Smith and thanked him for his photos, so I contacted him and he told me he bought the bike at an estate sale in Pennsylvania from a family that had moved from New Jersey. I told him that was my father’s old bike and sent him what photos I had of it from back in the day. My father passed away the end of last year, and he was big on slide photos, so I’ll have to go through those to dig out any more pictures of it from back then. Best thing is the bike will be at Wauseon in July, I hope to get a chance to look it over as I haven’t seen it in like 44 years.
Neat, right? The ironic thing that Jeff Smith told me is that he had just joined Instagram, he only made one post, the AMCA reposted the pictures and I happened to see them, or else I still wouldn’t know what happened to this bike. Which, by the way, was the first motorcycle I ever had a ride on.
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I looked at that bike and thought that looks like the Knucklehead my father had in the 70’s. I noticed it had a Jersey plate on it, and if I see it right the plate is from 1979, which is right around when my father sold it. After he sold it we never saw it again, and thought it was strange it wasn’t at any meets we went to (I’m from Jersey). So I dug out some old photos of the bike, here is one from about 1975…
CC33CAC1-E8A8-4B2E-B82E-639215C94BB7.jpeg
I mean how many chromed out 42 Knuckleheads from Jersey in the 1970s could there be? Same seat, same bags, same shift knob, same chrome details, gotta be. So on Instagram the AMCA thanked a gentleman named Jeff Smith and thanked him for his photos, so I contacted him and he told me he bought the bike at an estate sale in Pennsylvania from a family that had moved from New Jersey. I told him that was my father’s old bike and sent him what photos I had of it from back in the day. My father passed away the end of last year, and he was big on slide photos, so I’ll have to go through those to dig out any more pictures of it from back then. Best thing is the bike will be at Wauseon in July, I hope to get a chance to look it over as I haven’t seen it in like 44 years.
Neat, right? The ironic thing that Jeff Smith told me is that he had just joined Instagram, he only made one post, the AMCA reposted the pictures and I happened to see them, or else I still wouldn’t know what happened to this bike. Which, by the way, was the first motorcycle I ever had a ride on.
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