Original paint 1918 HD w sidecar on ebay

[Pigpen]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Motor...1%7C240%3A1308

[Sarge]

That's a candidate for restoration. An expensive restoration.
Looks like he happened upon an old junk yard and thinks he found a gold mine.
Lots of long-neglected metal there among his offerings, further gone than his pie-in-the-sky asking prices justify. JMHO.

[Chris Haynes]

Originally Posted by Pigpen

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Motor...1%7C240%3A1308

He claims that is a 1918 US Army machine. But the serial number and the round top fenders with the skirts say it is a 1918 Electric equipped twin. Military bikes were FUS models in 1918 and had carbide lamps and flat fenders.

[PANHEADTEX]

Originally Posted by Sarge

That's a candidate for restoration. An expensive restoration.
Looks like he happened upon an old junk yard and thinks he found a gold mine.
Lots of long-neglected metal there among his offerings, further gone than his pie-in-the-sky asking prices justify. JMHO.

Yes, i'll bet he wont sell that machine fer that kind of money.

This rare americana guy has one gear box and seven old motors fer sale too.

http://motors.shop.ebay.com/merchant/rare-americana

[Sarge]

Ya notice that the motors have lain out of doors, or buried up-to-here, and have things like missing crankcase drain plugs and open spark plug holes, so they're well 'weathered' inside and out. So far gone, they'll make good doorstops, but not much else. I agree with Chris, that '18 H-D is civilian, 'electric equipped.' Has nothing to do with the military. But it's pretty thoroughly shot.
We've passed the 'best if used by date' on bikes that old, found now, I guess. The good ones were ferreted out decades ago, and most of what comes to light lately looks like this stuff. Not that usable stuff won't be found, occasionally, but this is not an example of it. Another of the cautions of frequenting eBay: "Caveat Emptor,' and all that.
Guys come around who thing the year-of-manufacture of some piece of over-oxidized, beat-up metal makes it just as valuable as a carefully-conserved one. They haven't a clue, and are preying on the even more clueless. Makes you wonder if they're really that unknowing, or just hoping for a quick score from someone with more money than brains.

[gameim]

Guys come around who thing the year-of-manufacture of some piece of over-oxidized, beat-up metal makes it just as valuable as a carefully-conserved one. They haven't a clue, and are preying on the even more clueless. Makes you wonder if they're really that unknowing, or just hoping for a quick score from someone with more money than brains.

[MeanGene]

Item removed from ebay

[Sarge]

I notice that the URL for the guy in post number 4 of this thread by Panhead Tex still works. He still has four pieces of what used-to-be-motors left. I pray that doesn't mean he found three suckers, somewhere on this planet, for those other doorstops.

I see that one's from a 1913 Indian twin. Still not worth anything like he's demanding, but rrrandall could take a look at a motor like was in his grandfather's bike.