In 1977 AMF Harley came out with the 'confederate editions' banking in no doubt on the widespread use of the 'rebel' flag from fans of racing, southern rock and so on. Production numbers were low – reported to be 44 FLH motorcycles, 228 Super Glides, 299 Sportster XLs, 45 Sportster XLCHs, and 15 Sportster XLTs Supposedly HD quickly bought back the bikes that were shipped to dealers and repainted them. There aren't many accounted for these days and its a shame that HD apparently got nervous about the 'PC Police' because I would've loved to have one!
This is an ad for the then upcoming 'confederate series' that supposedly never went to publication.
3 comments:
your history as ever is fascinating! 1 question- was there such a thing as 'PC' in 1977? BTW, like the new title to the blog, looks good.
haha, thanks man!
They called it 'politically correct' back then and there was plenty of it in 1977...
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