Of course they're ahead. It's why the Co. made a 4-cyl twin out of it instead of the two lung deep stroke thing with the wierd almost square cam lobes... It was because the Japs made a long - range torpedo that the Brits went limping back home with their tails between their legs when they thought they were going to Japan to kick A. They thought the Brits had, but they hadn't, b/c they gave up. Imagine a battleship spitting metal at anything from its big guns, for up to 24 miles. The Jap planes didn't even get close enough to be hit. And we were losing the air battles with them until some fool landed his plane, out of fuel. We "captured" it, brought it back home, and copied it with improvements. Another part of their weakness was that they didn't bring the best seasoned flyers back home to train the new recruits. We did. Their best fought until they died in battle, and their lessons for winning went with them. The Zero dominated the air until we made something new that finally could hold its own against it. But barely. They weren't too keen on developing new machines to stay ahead. Not like the Germans. Were Hitler a little more humble, the Germans would have had jet fighters early in the war and the outcome would have been quite different. Good thing they apparently didn't share tech info with the Nips... BTW I didn't know Harley had a "patent" on the sound of its exhaust...
________________________________ From: Kim Paddock <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, August 8, 2010 9:38:14 AM Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] A brutally honest Harley commercial I call it my Armacchi-Davidson or my Hardley-a-Davidson. It's a joke that goes over well with the old gray beards who work on 'em. They get a kick out of the fact that I work on 'em too. The Japs owned Harley? Very funny Stanley ;). The Japs are, as always, way ahead of the game. America buys back the company in 1982 amongst fanfare from all loyal Harley owners who missed the old daze when the machines actually worked well, simple or no. Break out those tattered blueprints boys and let's get back to the stoned age! ________________________________ From: stanley/ Randolph <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, August 7, 2010 11:03:40 AM Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] A brutally honest Harley commercial Armacci? Do you mean AMF? I don't know about the former, but I thought AMF owned it for awhile & sold it to a Jap company that made an awesome V4 twin from their old antique designs... Stanley ________________________________ From: Kim Paddock <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, August 7, 2010 11:11:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] A brutally honest Harley commercial Hey now!! I own two of those...well maybe one...one is a 1976 Hardley-a-Davidson. That's when Armacchi owned the company. I do love the trap doors on the old one though. Easy access to all of the main parts...which is good considering how much work they need. They are indeed (mostly) simple machines. HotrodMamma. ________________________________ From: Kyle Munz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 7:02:02 AM Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] A brutally honest Harley commercial That was great :) -Kyle On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:39 AM, surfswab <[email protected]> wrote: Ya just gotta love this -- > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzlN2zC8PU > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
