cowpuc Posted April 1, 2014 #1 Posted April 1, 2014 This one came out of an Estate sale that Tippy and I went to Sunday.. I was surprised by the lack of interest in it,, maybe cause its a "Police Special", maybe cause it obviously had not been ran (tank was 1/2 full of fuel turned to molasses),, at any rate - it followed it us home.. Story was that the old guy who had passed away aquired it from the Detroit Police.. I am (as my neighbor says) unique in what catches my eye,, and ol bikes always seem to.. On the way home Tippy says,, sooooo,, whats your plan,, resale like it is or ya gonna dig into it and,,, I stopped her.. I said,, you know me,, I cant wait to at least clean the carb on the thing,, did you see the carb?? She's like,, what?? It has a Keikhefer Quick Silver carb on it,, never in all my years have I seen one so I at least gotta clean the tanks and the carb right??... Spent the day out front on the slab (YES - a WHOLE day outside FINALLY -- NA NA FLYINGFOOL - you and your snowstorms are slipping buddy!!), tanks cleaned, carb cleaned (pretty interesting internally - good shape but I aint NEVER seen anything like it - float valve lays horizonally - is brass with an actual ball bearing used as a valve - neat stuff), new plugs, points cleaned and set, oil changed... Pulled a line off at the oil cooler - oil pump doing its job.. Had to jump it with the car (battery is shot of course).. By the time Tippy and the daughter got back from the movies ol Pucster was cruisin the hood on it.. Put 73 miles on the old girl!! BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR AN OLD SCHOOL FOOL ON AN OLD SCHOOL HARLEY... 1970 Harley Police Bike, pre AMF, 74 inch Cone Shovel, 4 speed, Lights all worked fine, Very very little oil leaking (I am thinking that the little bit I got from it is from the chain oiler - oh yea chain drive, I was shocked - NO SUMPING after sitting all those years, numbers matching frame and cases, no cracks in any of the fiberglass (UNREAL), 23k miles that I have a hunch are pretty accurate... TAKE A LOOK AT THAT OL COP TRUNK - IT IS HUGE!!! I know it aint no new Venture, Indian or Harley but to me,, these patina covered ol scoots just make my heart palpitate... Thought some of you folks might enjoy hearing about it.... And Lord,, if your listening,, thanks for the beautiful spring weather yesterday and today,,, finally working outside,, hands all covered with gassy smell,, grease smeared across the chin,,,,,, it was awesome!! Puc PS,, got another short video or two of it running,, when I get a sec I will toss it up on you tube so you guys can see.. I also yapped with the previous owners daughter about the bike,, I promised her I would make her a video of me riding her dads old bike when I got it going,, her name was Jillian,, real good people!!! Might hear me mention her in one of the vids.......
valleycat Posted April 1, 2014 #2 Posted April 1, 2014 That is awesome. Great to see some older stuff rescued. Nice day here in the great white north too...
stickhandle2 Posted April 1, 2014 #3 Posted April 1, 2014 Puc, buddy you did it again. What a great find. Can already tell your having a blast. Gonna have to start checkin out the local Estate Sales haha. Way to go. Mike
Flyinfool Posted April 1, 2014 #4 Posted April 1, 2014 Nice find. I have a surprise coming for you wise guy........
blue mtn. jim Posted April 1, 2014 #5 Posted April 1, 2014 This one came out of an Estate sale that Tippy and I went to Sunday.. I was surprised by the lack of interest in it,, maybe cause its a "Police Special", maybe cause it obviously had not been ran (tank was 1/2 full of fuel turned to molasses),, at any rate - it followed it us home.. Story was that the old guy who had passed away aquired it from the Detroit Police.. I am (as my neighbor says) unique in what catches my eye,, and ol bikes always seem to.. On the way home Tippy says,, sooooo,, whats your plan,, resale like it is or ya gonna dig into it and,,, I stopped her.. I said,, you know me,, I cant wait to at least clean the carb on the thing,, did you see the carb?? She's like,, what?? It has a Keikhefer Quick Silver carb on it,, never in all my years have I seen one so I at least gotta clean the tanks and the carb right??... Spent the day out front on the slab (YES - a WHOLE day outside FINALLY -- NA NA FLYINGFOOL - you and your snowstorms are slipping buddy!!), tanks cleaned, carb cleaned (pretty interesting internally - good shape but I aint NEVER seen anything like it - float valve lays horizonally - is brass with an actual ball bearing used as a valve - neat stuff), new plugs, points cleaned and set, oil changed... Pulled a line off at the oil cooler - oil pump doing its job.. Had to jump it with the car (battery is shot of course).. By the time Tippy and the daughter got back from the movies ol Pucster was cruisin the hood on it.. Put 73 miles on the old girl!! BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR AN OLD SCHOOL FOOL ON AN OLD SCHOOL HARLEY... 1970 Harley Police Bike, pre AMF, 74 inch Cone Shovel, 4 speed, Lights all worked fine, Very very little oil leaking (I am thinking that the little bit I got from it is from the chain oiler - oh yea chain drive, I was shocked - NO SUMPING after sitting all those years, numbers matching frame and cases, no cracks in any of the fiberglass (UNREAL), 23k miles that I have a hunch are pretty accurate... TAKE A LOOK AT THAT OL COP TRUNK - IT IS HUGE!!! I know it aint no new Venture, Indian or Harley but to me,, these patina covered ol scoots just make my heart palpitate... Thought some of you folks might enjoy hearing about it.... And Lord,, if your listening,, thanks for the beautiful spring weather yesterday and today,,, finally working outside,, hands all covered with gassy smell,, grease smeared across the chin,,,,,, it was awesome!! Puc PS,, got another short video or two of it running,, when I get a sec I will toss it up on you tube so you guys can see.. I also yapped with the previous owners daughter about the bike,, I promised her I would make her a video of me riding her dads old bike when I got it going,, her name was Jillian,, real good people!!! Might hear me mention her in one of the vids....... Hey that's a keeper!! When I came back from overseas and got stationed at Panama City, Fla. the guys use to go up to Alabama and see if they find some scoots in those old barns. These guys would find old 45 meter maid trikes and old knuckle heads just laying in those old barns. The old timers said if a John Deer part would not work on it, well the heck with it. There was just not really any place to get them serviced. They sell them for almost nothing and laugh as those guys would load up them pieces of junk. Well I am glad you found a piece of history, and it ran to boot, awesome. I had a chance to buy a panhead down near Key West one time, it had the original tires on it 1,500.00 bucks. What a dummy I was, hind sight and foresight is worth a lot sometimes. Good Luck and have fun, Jim
djh3 Posted April 1, 2014 #6 Posted April 1, 2014 Neat find. The trunk on that thing looks like one I had on a dresser I built back in the 80"s. It came from a company called "Custom Dressers". Made some dang nice bags, trunks light bars etc. Can you guys up there register an antique bike with say the tag thats on there? Here in Fla if you have an antique car/bike you can register with old type tag like that. They just give you up to date sticker. Now the faring on that thing looks like they just stuck something on there. Huge gap by headlight and seems to stick up a bunch.
bongobobny Posted April 1, 2014 #8 Posted April 1, 2014 I';m not a Harley fan but that one is Uber cool!!
BoomerCPO Posted April 1, 2014 #9 Posted April 1, 2014 Puc if you lived closer to me I'd be sneaking that bike out of your garage. I have had my share of Harley's and vowed I'd never buy another one BUT I'd make an exception for an old Iron Horse like you have there. Ride on my man!! Boomer....who sez ya gotta get police lights and a siren for that old warrior. No LEO in his right mind would bother you about THAT.
billmac Posted April 1, 2014 #10 Posted April 1, 2014 Nice find. mind if I ask what you paid? Waiting on the videos.
cowpuc Posted April 1, 2014 Author #11 Posted April 1, 2014 (edited) Nice find. I have a surprise coming for you wise guy........[/quote BAD BOYS BAD BOYS, WHAT CHA GONNA DO,, WHAT CHA GONNA DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU,,, riding a cop bike now FF,,, ye be warned.... Hey that's a keeper!! When I came back from overseas and got stationed at Panama City, Fla. the guys use to go up to Alabama and see if they find some scoots in those old barns. These guys would find old 45 meter maid trikes and old knuckle heads just laying in those old barns. The old timers said if a John Deer part would not work on it, well the heck with it. There was just not really any place to get them serviced. They sell them for almost nothing and laugh as those guys would load up them pieces of junk. Well I am glad you found a piece of history, and it ran to boot, awesome. I had a chance to buy a panhead down near Key West one time, it had the original tires on it 1,500.00 bucks. What a dummy I was, hind sight and foresight is worth a lot sometimes. Good Luck and have fun, Jim Crazy aint it Jim.... Drives me nuts too,,, my wife keeps telling me to stop looking back when I point stuff like that out (easier said than done..),, Puc, she says,,,, look at all the fun you had living thru though years,,, yea I say,,, but if I would have only known.. Neat find. The trunk on that thing looks like one I had on a dresser I built back in the 80"s. It came from a company called "Custom Dressers". Made some dang nice bags, trunks light bars etc. Can you guys up there register an antique bike with say the tag thats on there? Here in Fla if you have an antique car/bike you can register with old type tag like that. They just give you up to date sticker. Now the faring on that thing looks like they just stuck something on there. Huge gap by headlight and seems to stick up a bunch. Michigans the same DJ on the plates,, I have several of those Historic Plates and run them A LOT.. Here,, you can get a 15 year "Historic Plate" (bikes gotta be 25 years old) for 30 bucks OR you can get an old plate that matches the year of the bike (like the one on the back of this Cop Hog,, and it DOES NOT even have to be from Michigan) and pay 5 more dollars and have that plate permanently attached to that bike.. Been running em on my Ventures for years and EVERYTHING that falls inside of rules.. This will make ya laugh,, my neighbor says,, cops are gonna take your motorbike away from you for running that fake plate on there.. I says,,, why,, its legal, nothing fake about it... He says,, those are for parades only.. I said,, ya gotta read the rules,, you can be going to and from shows/events,, be working on your bike or test riding after working on it.. I love test riding my bikes,, I always stop at bike events, I am always showing - off,, and I have NEVER owned a bike that I am not constantly working on:rotf::rotf::rotf: Concerning the fairing,, it came with the windshield attached, the fairing was unattached and I just laid it up above the lite to show what it looked like... GOOD EYE DJ!! Nice find. mind if I ask what you paid? Waiting on the videos. Not ready to let that cat out of the bad yet Bill,, this one may very well end up on E-Bay and I would hate to have that info floating around out there in Cyberworld during a sale,, could be not good.. Ask me again over a camp fire this summer,,,, man I miss camping.. Ok,, got the first vid up,, this vid was intended for the deceased PO's family (great kids!!) so thats why I mentioned their names.. I promised them I would post one up for them as soon as I got it running.. The son of the PO wanted soooo badly to hear his dads old bike run again but it just couldnt happen in its condition at the sale so I did the next best thing... Gotta love the relationship between a gear headed biker and his machine,, the girl - Jillian - said I reminded her soooo much of her father it wasnt funny... I love bikes but I love people more... Puc Edited April 1, 2014 by cowpuc
cowpuc Posted April 1, 2014 Author #12 Posted April 1, 2014 And hear is another short vid of todays outcome.. Man what a fun day,, springs coming!!!
Dragonslayer Posted April 1, 2014 #13 Posted April 1, 2014 Puc, That's special. How come I never have finds like that? I guess I would if I started looking. Don't do like a Buddy of mine that ended up with a police special. He thought it would be cool to get a two tone half shell helmet until he took his first ride to find out everyone in front of him would lock down on the breaks and start doing 25 MPH as soon as they saw him in in the rear view.
Flyinfool Posted April 1, 2014 #14 Posted April 1, 2014 BAD BOYS BAD BOYS, WHAT CHA GONNA DO,, WHAT CHA GONNA DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU,,, riding a cop bike now FF,,, ye be warned.... Now we both know that that old thing ain't gonna catch a 1st gen until I stop for ice cream......
rickardracing Posted April 1, 2014 #15 Posted April 1, 2014 It does not have to have speed. It has the OOOOOOOH factor. And that out weighs any speed factor. I wish it were in MY garage.
cowpuc Posted April 1, 2014 Author #16 Posted April 1, 2014 Now we both know that that old thing ain't gonna catch a 1st gen until I stop for ice cream...... Yea but being a cop bike I dont have to stop for lites, stop signs, other cops pulling me over and giving me tickets,,,,,,,, as long as I can conjur up a good siren sound I should get there wayyyyyy ahead of ya!! THANKS A LOT FLYINFOOL!! YOU JUST CREATED THE SHORTEST SPRING KNOWN TO MANKIND - LASTED ALL OF 2 DAYS - high of 27 here today!!! Ya know ol buddy,,, when those southern breezes start all its gonna take to blow all the ice floating off shore on Lake Michigan over to Milwaukee is a slight eastern breeze to go with it,,,, karma's funny stuff.....
cowpuc Posted April 1, 2014 Author #18 Posted April 1, 2014 I tried to warn ya... That cha did Jeff,, that cha did... Guess we oughta do the brotherly love thing and warn our brothers out east of the coming doom too..
Dragonslayer Posted April 1, 2014 #20 Posted April 1, 2014 In the 70s with sunshine!!!The only reason why I drove the cage to work today is because I had a lunch date. But, I'm going home and ride before dark. It's 78 degrees here and I'm starting to peel layers. 5:00 better hurry, I don't have that many layers left.
Evan Posted April 1, 2014 #21 Posted April 1, 2014 ----- I'm going home and ride before dark. It's 78 degrees here and I'm starting to peel layers. 5:00 better hurry, I don't have that many layers left. Hey Bob, it's 5 o'clock somewhere!
Sylvester Posted April 1, 2014 #22 Posted April 1, 2014 At least it is electric start. I bought a 62 Duo Glide in 1970 from the Omaha Ne police auction. Had jockey shift and all the police stuff less the radio but still had the Omaha police decals. I kept it until about 2000 and road it in parades etc. Still had the red lights and fender mounted siren and they worked. It got to where it was so hard to kick over that I gave up and sold it.
DarrinGT Posted April 2, 2014 #23 Posted April 2, 2014 Now THAT is a Cool bike! Nice job Puc! Glad you had a couple of days of spring to get it running since winter came back today,..
Dragonslayer Posted April 2, 2014 #24 Posted April 2, 2014 Hey Bob, it's 5 o'clock somewhere! The clock on my office wall had been dropped at some point in time so it does not keep the right time. The clock is at 5:00 and the second hand will advance 15 seconds in a clockwise motion the go backwards 15 seconds in a counterclockwise motion and has been doing that for months. When people come to my office they always notice and comment on the clock. My standard answer is that it is stuck on Bob-A-Mania time where it's always happy hour. Happy, Happy, Happy:thumbsup2:
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