Some deluded stupid SOB thinks this Indian is going to have someone walk up and hand him $20,000 dollars for it in it's neglected and useless condition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=ehajXFG_ZdY is the same photo, with a voice over...

don't be this idiot, if you have some old rusty vehicle, and someone offers you money for it, because they want to get it going and running again, take it. Refuse the scrap metal people, I'm not with the people that just want to make money by destroying, the same goes for the "finders fee" people that are buying to resell at profit... but if someone enthusiastically says they want it, are going to make it work again... and offer money, just take it and let that piece of junk move onto another life of usefullness. Just the amount of money spent on paint and body in your area to pay your neighbor who paints, rebuilds, sells fuel line, tires, etc etc... is a good reason to see a rusty old junker move along at some young foolish kids dream of making it work.

I was a foolish young guy, and blew 24 thou into my 1969 Superbee over 5 years of replacing and improving parts. Drove it cross country 2wice, drag raced it http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-69-super-bee-was-having-good-time-in.html , and went on dates in it... all due to that last guy realizing he needed it to get out of his yard and it needed a new life. It had a dead battery, no matching tires or rims, a Tide clothes detergent bottle for a radiator overflow container, clothes line held the radiator in place, no second gear, no emergency brake, etc etc. But I made it vibrant and alive again. I sold it after 6 years of owning it, 10 years ago... to a guy who gave it a bigger engine, painted it black, and sold it 2 years ago to someone in Clearwater Florida.

If you see a black 69 Superbee near Clearwater, take a photo, get the owners email, and let me know! I've wondered how it turned out, and what it's like now

I learned months late that one of Burt's land speed record Indian bikes was at the NHRA museum, and galleries of photos are up around the internet

Recorded at the 2011 Grass Valley Airfest

Notice that the nose of the fairing is open, and in the Bonneville photos and film, there is no opening on the fairing of the bike Burt is racing. Some forums point out that Burt had more than one, and it may be that he had one that he kept in America for racing at Bonneville and didn't keep shipping it back to Invercargill

Photos above are from galleries you can see at
http://pwheelie.blogspot.com/index.html#9147611057932981363
and http://www.blackjoe.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16618207&sid=3a814b1ada5596f223979a00c1d4c476

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/10/12/new-indian-motorcycle-company-to-sponsor-indian-day-west-event-in-pomona/ for just the poster image

Cool Indian Motorcycle factory tool kit... great to see it's a treasured set, and photographically appreciated

Found on http://daddy2indahouse.tumblr.com/

interesting variety of cars, blimps, trains, race cars and motorwheels found on The Old Motor.com

 929 Packard and the Graf Zeppelin. For an amazing color gallery of the inside of the Hindenburg: http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/04/inside-the-hindenburg-in-colour/

This an unusual front door bus with a ladder in the back so people could ride on top, This is a steam powered bus built in Hoquiam, Gray's Harbor County, Washington in 1902.  It was in passenger service between Aberdeen and Hoquaim for just eleven days when it slipped off the road and into a creek, breaking a passenger's neck in the process.  The lawsuit drove the company out of business (Steve found this out with magic!)

 1905 Matheson

 1908 Corbin

 1919 series 9b franklin with 4 piece wedge windshield

 1920's  Locomobile model 48 with Farnum and Nelson coachwork

 Naptha fuel in 1927

 1938 REO delivery van

 American Underslung

 I didn't make a note about this photo, but probably the wrok of Stephan Marjoram

Above and below show just what a lack of border security there was between San Diego and Ti Juana... passing over was not even noticeable. Now, it's normally an hour or 2 of sitting in traffic, at least, to get into the US.

  

 Only 1915 Indian registration I've ever seen

 chain drive AC Mack tow truck delivering to the junkyard

 Columbia Electric Vehicle with 2 coachmen riding on the back

 Keeping the car high and dry during a flood

 1922 Frontenac Indy race car and Duray the driver.. I like the grill design

A 1913-14 GMC Electric

 interesting double globe gas pumps

 wow, that is a fancy art deco garage facade

 the private collection of the Indian Govenor of Rampur

 The Hassler shock absorber salesman pointing out options and upgrades this car has, like the solid disc rims, the upgraded Hassler shocks, the sunscreen, and front bumper

 look at the crazy hat and headscarf the woman in the back of the car is wearing

 Wow. Impressive task they have ahead of them

 homemade early RV

Above is a famous firepump from 1889, the one called Jumbo, Hartford Ct

 Board lumbar roads, because they couldn't get around when the tundra thawed I suppose.

 Interesting tires on this chain drive Knox firetruck

 Above and below are Matheson autos

 Mercers

 Mitchell proving how reliable it was

 Locomobile Model 48 with coachbuilt body by Farnham and Belson

 A Frazer Nash photographed by Stephen Marjoram

 a painting of Oregon across the broad back

 REO Speedwagons and Duesenburg Indy racecars

 Smith Motorwheel

 Unusual locomotive design used in the train yard as a switcher

 the last Miller racecar was one of 2 4 wheel drive, here it is racing up Pikes Peak

A tour bus by White in Yosemite

all found among the 156 pages of great history, photography, and information on http://theoldmotor.com/