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  • 1945 fl

    on eBay

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/286850481130

  • #2
    wow, 100 points! beautiful bike
    AMCA #41287
    1971 Sprint SS350 project
    1972 FX Boattail Night Train
    1972 Sportster project
    1973 HD Golf Cart project
    1979 FXS 1200 never done playing
    1989 Springer Softail project
    1998 Dyna Convertible - 100% Original
    96" Evo Softail self built chopper
    2012 103" Road King
    2020 Heritage Classic 114
    plus 14 other bikes over the years...

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    • #3
      That is a stunner. The challenge with perfection is the initial conversion from show bike to rider…these should be ridden and enjoyed. My 1945 essential use EL (purchased before sky-rocketing prices) had its 800 mile trip this Spring at the Oregon AMCA ride. What do you think, will the eBay bike get ridden?
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      • #4
        Belly numbers for this bike
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        • #5
          I see a 1/4 point deduction. The rocker nuts should be chromed, not Parkerized. So it is only a 99 3/4 point bike. a 5 minute fix. :-) 16658.jpg 16742 1945 OHV.jpg
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          • #6
            The 1945 EL on the cover of Bruce Palmer's books has chromed rocker nuts thanks to Bruce's research and advice when we were restoring the bike. The bike received 100 points at Oley.
            Dave

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            • #7
              If both bikes mentioned received 100 points, that would suggest an oversight/error in either the judging or the judging criteria. So, like everything else, the system isn't perfect.
              Or maybe they switched to chromed rocker nuts after V-J Day...

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              • #8
                The bike should have chrome rocker nuts. I've never seen a factory photo showing a war era bike with anything other than Gray tank emblems, but the Blue and Black emblems were an accessory, so they would be considered acceptable on a restoration. Nice bike, big money...
                vph-d

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                • #9
                  When I first did my 44UL w/sidecar back in the late '70s all the info available at the time (mostly period photos) showed a few chrome bits and the documentation I could find showed the factory using up small chrome items from inventory on civilian bikes such as the speedo bezel, grip sleeves, headlight bezel, and gas caps. I also remember purchasing war surplus parts and getting the bonus of them being factory chrome painted over in OD green. When stripped they were new chrome underneath so obviously had been in inventory before full war production was underway. I did the bike as a civilian model due to it being a UL and not a U.
                  Robbie Knight Amca #2736

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