In case you need a 45

[DoomBuggy]

Here you go

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1942-Harley-Davidson-45-WLA/153263941889?hash=item23af3e2901:g:wucAAOSwwvtb2gS9

[Tattooo]

Hell I remember when you couldn't get $100.00 for one of them........

I think you could get them at the military auctions for $25.00 all day long........

Man have things changed......

[DoomBuggy]

Hell I remember when you couldn't get $100.00 for one of them........

I think you could get them at the military auctions for $25.00 all day long........

Man have things changed......

I painted the mailman's barn in exchange for a complete WLA. That was a LONG time ago. ( Dad made me sell it to pay for the tickets I got one wild weekend )

[datadavid]

I painted the mailman's barn in exchange for a complete WLA. That was a LONG time ago. ( Dad made me sell it to pay for the tickets I got one wild weekend )

Speeding tickets with a wla? Thats impressive!

[rockman96]

Speeding tickets with a wla? Thats impressive!

I was thinking the same thing, lol!
Actually my first thought when I saw the thread title, was ‘1911’.

[DoomBuggy]

LOL, no not speeding, driving without a license, illegal lane usage, evading arrest ( trying to loose them in a corn field ), etc. By the time I had that bike I was already a known commodity with the local constabulary. I never did anything "bad" in my day that didn't involve at least two wheels and a motor, be it a Brigs & Stratton or the WLA!

[Crawdadbobb]

I just picked up a whole 48 for a grand in boxes

[Davestune]

I paid 100 bucks for a 45, what a drunken adventure.
Bro bought a new shovelhead. And i got a dented held together with duct tape and bailing wire, bike
The bike knew when ypu picked up a chick, would take a hour to start. Haha. Those was the days.
Broke dick days pure biker trash

[KevinN]

My first HD was a '41 WLA. 1969, bought at a garage sale. I was 14 and it was kind of a guilt gift as my mom and dad had separated. Mom wouldn't let me ride it home so we waited till my brother got off work to get it. It was a good runner complete. Here is the sad thing, a few years later I traded it for a 250 Suzuki MX bike. We all have stories of bikes and women that got away.

[DoomBuggy]

^^^ Amen to that ^^^

[Hoghead]

^^^ Amen to that ^^^

Oh yes. 45's were the poor boys route to Harley ownership in the UK years back, all ex military. The local USAAF base was covered with hardware at the end of the war, what the locals didn't buy went for scrap, rumour has it they buried some of the bikes! They were less gutless than the army indians, some became sidehacks.

[Tattooo]

I just picked up a whole 48 for a grand in boxes

A 48 what???