Did Everybody Have An Uncle That Rode An Indian In The 40's?

[Airpirate]

It didn't snow up here today, so at lunch I jumped on my trusty scooter and rode down to a little Mexican resturant in town. I got a parking spot right outside the front door. I got some steak tacos and a 7 oz Corona and sat outside at a small table.

 

I was there about 30 mins, in that time I gad 4 different people walk past my bike, stop look at me and ask "Is that your Indian?" ( I'm the only guy there wearing a black IIR shirt). Then they all say two things;

 

"Wow I didn't know Indian still made motorcycles"

 

"You know my uncle used to ride one in the 40's"

 

The other comments are "WOW for a 60 year bike, it looks like new"

 

 

Two people said "wow an Indian, that's sooo cool to see, them Harley's are a dime a doz"

 

[XV62]

It didn't snow up here today, so at lunch I jumped on my trusty scooter and rode down to a little Mexican resturant in town. I got a parking spot right outside the front door. I got some steak tacos and a 7 oz Corona and sat outside at a small table.

 

I was there about 30 mins, in that time I gad 4 different people walk past my bike, stop look at me and ask "Is that your Indian?" ( I'm the only guy there wearing a black IIR shirt). Then they all say two things;

 

"Wow I didn't know Indian still made motorcycles"

 

"You know my uncle used to ride one in the 40's"

 

The other comments are "WOW for a 60 year bike, it looks like new"

 

 

Two people said "wow an Indian, that's sooo cool to see, them Harley's are a dime a doz"

 

 

If it don't happen every time you ride, it's because nobody saw ya.

[TallRider]

Same thing happens on the ferry . . . and my fellow rider commuters now just role their eyes they've heard the conversation so often. It happens even more often on the weekends.

 

"Is that a REAL Indian?"

 

"My grandfather . . . "

 

"We have one stored in the barn back in . . . "

 

. . . and on and on.

[Scalper38]

I ran into a guy today in NC (at the HD dealership no less) that said he actually owned an Indian 4 and sold it a couple years ago for about $31K. Now he just owns a 96 HD special edition of some sort. I kept trying to get him to go over to Moses' shop and buy a new Indian but don't think I was successful. Oh well, always fun to talk to those old guys!

[ChiefBluSky]

Yesterday, I had two truckers changing speeds on the Mass Pike to pull along side and give me the thumbs up.... or where they saying, "... up yours !..."

[hasbin]

Not an uncle, But the old dude sitting 6' away from me here did, That would be my (soon-2-be) 90yr old father.

 

 

And by the way he loves my Gilroy "INDIANS"

[Dr. Mark]

If'n it ain't their uncle, it's their dad, or their grandad, or their (insert relation here)that owned one.

 

I wonder where alla them Indians went....there must be 60 million of 'em hidin' in barns somewheres.....

 

-Doc

[Maldev]

Not an uncle, But the old dude sitting 6' away from me here did, That would be my (soon-2-be) 90yr old father.

 

 

And by the way he loves my Gilroy "INDIANS"

And he has a great first name. One of the three reasons I like him.

[hasbin]

If'n it ain't their uncle, it's their dad, or their grandad, or their (insert relation here)that owned one.

 

I wonder where alla them Indians went....there must be 60 million of 'em hidin' in barns somewheres.....

 

-Doc

 

Doc, My dad actually was able to take his from the Philippines to Guam when he was an MP. He had to leave it in Guam when he was discharged. He has some great stories about that scoot & his time in the service.

[mycorn]

nobody in my family history road

 

and actually

some guy on an indian scared the living krap outta my pop

when he was hitch hiking as a youngster. he never got over that ride

[to this day even]

 

we never knew as kids why he was so adamantly against scooters...

 

generations flippin'...

 

mh