Steve McQueen's 1921 Harley Davidson with sidecar

this tail light illustrates that the lighting for both head and tail lights was gas... not gasoline, the type that vehicles used, in this case it's carried in the shiny silver colored canister attached to the handlebars

this past Sunday was an event at the Lyon Air Museum, Bikers and Bombers, and 2 sidecar equipped bikes that were owned by Steve McQueen were there, one is a Von Dutch restored Panther, also, 2 tank tread bikes were there. Photo galleries soon, here's a preview

 the above Panther was made in 1937, the below Harley was made in 1921

both the above and below are 1943 NSU Kettenkrad HK 101s

one cool old Harley

 and it had this cool HD sticker

the back of the jacket says "Look at me" in an effective way. The bike says it in a subtle way

1942 Harley Davidson XA military grade hog... not a v twin.

nice airbrushed design on this Harley

 and nice idea for steel knuckles

1935 licensing of Harley blueprints, tools, dies, and machinery brought motorcycling to Japan

found on http://www.squidoo.com/neopets_pics

Soichiro Honda started selling bikes in 1948  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soichiro_Honda

Proud new owners of Harleys, photos taken in the 40's or 50's I think, found by Bill who looks for cool old photos in color slides

If anyone knows what years these are, please help me out, email me at jbohjkl@yahoo.com or use the comment function.

If anyone knows of a good Harley visual ID guide to the bikes or the tank transfers / emblems / badges please send me a link or the photo or what ever. It seems like someone online must have posted a poster, page from a parts guide, or someting.

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if I make this last one out correctly, it's a 1936-1939 because of the tank transfer (water transfer used to be a sticker type) 

the following are the only things I could find quickly, and they don't seem to be big enough to be useful

 the above is one page from the 1930-1941 spare parts book for Harley's that I posted a couple years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/1930-1941-harley-spare-parts-factory.html

this last poster is available to purchase from All Poster, and so they won;t post a big image online

Harley V-Twin powered sprint car of Lee Cook

 this is a damn good looking front end. Chrome louvers, shiny fasteners, nice grill, and cool lettering.

Harley washed out to sea by the tsunami that hit Japan last year found on a beach in Canada

 A container that was apparently swept away from Miyagi Prefecture by the March 2011 tsunami has been found on a British Columbia island, and inside it contained a Harley-Davidson.


The motorcycle, found in the container by a local resident, bears a license plate showing it registered in Miyagi Prefecture, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said Monday. The container may be the first debris from the disaster to arrive in Canada, the report added.

The container with the motorcycle washed up on Graham Island on April 18. Peter Mark found it while he was riding his all-terrain vehicle exploring an isolated beach, the report said. The license plate on the rusted Harley-Davidson motorcycle reads Miyagi So 428.

"I gotta say, the first thing that popped into my mind when I was looking at the scene (was) I really wonder what happened to this person. I really hope this person is OK," Mark was quoted as saying.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120502a6.html

And the bike is set to be reunited with its owner Ikuo Yokoyama after he was traced by its number plate.

“This is unmistakably mine. It’s miraculous,” Yokoyama told Nippon TV when shown photos of the motorcycle.

Ikuo lost three members of his family in the March 11, 2011, tsunami, and is now living in temporary housing

The bike was found by Canadian Peter Mark on Graham Island, off British Columbia on April 18.

Peter said the bike was covered in "a lot of corrosion, a lot of rust."

He added, he "couldn’t believe that something like that would make it across the Pacific."

Reports say the motorcycle would be shipped back to Japan, and that the shop that sold it to Yokoyama would help with paperwork and storage.

this 2nd bit of info, and the photo and video are from http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4292586/Japanese-Tsunami-Harley-washes-up-in-Canada.html

Harley Baja and 250

Military Harley Davidson MT500, year 2000