This is my 1959 Royal Enfield Indian. The Enfield Indians were sold by
Indian dealers from 1953 to 1960 as Indians after the factory in Springfield, Mass. was
closed down by Brockhouse, LTD., the British company that had purchased the Indian
manufacturing facility. Brockhouse had no association with Royal Enfield, whose
motorcycles (along with Vincent, and some others) were being sold by Indian dealers. The
Indian Sales Corporation was not involved in the sale of the factory, and shared the right
to use the Indian name, so they simply imported Royal Enfields from England without gas
tank badges and applied their own Indian badges and decals to the bikes, they then sold
them as Indians. This practice was ended in 1960 when Associated Motorcycles of England
(Builders of AJS and Matchless motorcycles) bought the Indian name. The backdrop is my 1949 Dodge coupe. |
This is a Beech Staggerwing. It obviously has nothing to do with motorcycles, I
just like the picture! The plane belongs to some friends of mine here in Oregon. |
Here is my 1965 R69S in "before and after" versions.
Before and after I max'ed out my Visa bill!
Do you like that Dodge in the picture of my Royal Enfield Indian? I've
been working on it. Here's a picture of the motor after we got it
reinstalled in the chassis. The front fenders were removed from the car to make the job
easier.
About my background graphic: That's a 1926 Zenith motorcycle that was featured in Classic Bike Magazine about 10 or 12 years ago. I copied the picture using an old computer drawing program called Dr. Halo. I employed a technique that was often used by artists to copy or enlarge pictures, where a grid is drawn or placed on top of the picture to be copied, and a similar grid (scaled up or down) is used on the surface to be copied onto, then each square of the grid is copied individually onto the new surface. It is an easy way to accurately copy pictures, and can be done with only a little drawing talent, as long as you have a reasonable amount of patience.
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