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Thanks for that link. I had seen some of those images when I did my own googling, but couldn't find a site dedicated to police motorcycles. Awesome. Thanks again.
I had read somewhere (I can't find the site again, sorry) that during WWII Harley Davidson ended domestic production and geared all their manufacturing might towards the war effort. Thus motorcycles that would have been used by civilian police forces were transitioned to military use. I would love to find an image of one of those military bikes that's been dressed for civilian police use.
Yeah, you would think there would have been a bunch of the military bikes picked up as surplus after the war and redeployed as civilian police motorcycles. I'm having a hard time finding any good picture.
("Harley-Davidson was called upon to build and ship more than 90,000 motorcycles for use during World War II.")Harley-Davidson Motorcycle History: How Legendary Harley Motorcycles Originated Developed, Since 1903
The FL was a civilian model. Harley did not cease civilian production, but production was limited and you had to qualify to buy one.(according to this link)1942 Harley-Davidson FL Knucklehead: About the Bike
Above is the Italeri model. The original idea was to build the model with the idea of trying to figure out a way to make and cast sub assemblies so that I could fairly easily reproduce the bike and offer it with a Captain America custom (that I'm still in the planning stages on). Unfortunately, there's so much going on with the model that I don't think my original idea will be feasable. So, I'm going to keep it and use it as a prop for the custom that I keep.
I just won another Italeri model and intend to give it the 40's police motorcycle look.
I'm taking a page from you, Bolt. It's my take on an ultimate WWII Cap. I'm planning on making a new body for it and I've got a lot of stuff to test and experiment with before it gets done. You all might see the new body on other characters before I get the Cap custom finished. I'm working on sketches of Wildcat, Black Adam, & Guardian.
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