Thought some of you might like to see my lifetime toy and perpetual love affair. Not really related to cars but did have car parts on it at one time. It was a chopper when I bought it in 1974 with an allegedly trashed transmission for 450 bucks. Nope; just a poor clutch adjustment. The bike is a 1944 U Model Sidevalve; a.k.a. flat head.
It had an extended Harley spring fork on it at the time. Extending the legs with Ford Model A radius rods was common. It had a VW Bug 6 volt generator and I re-ringed it one time with Ford flat head piston rings.It’s going back to the way it came out of the factory in 1944. Mostly. HD built less than 500 U’s out of an 18,000 bike production run. Most went to the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy Shore Patrol, and the rest to Lend Lease; as in Russians, South Africans, and Aussies. Currently in the process of wrestling a reproduction braided cotton wiring harness into place. Engine lower end and top end rebuilt; just need to mate them up.
The gray box with the snout by the bike is a NOS military oil bath air cleaner found on eBay It uses a copper mesh which is washed and oil coated along with 2 paper elements. It even came with a pair of extra paper elements. Can’t buy those at AutoZone…