True enought Ed, but as I recall the Power Plus motor had just hit the market when they closed the doors for good there in Gilroy CA. And the P-P motor basically was still an S&S motor bottom end, but with those barrel heads and as you put it "bottlecap" valve covers. Perhaps it was the money and time put into the R&D of the S&S motor to make the P-P unit that caused the hemmorrhaging of capital enough to bankrupt the concern.
And Ian, probably the reason the guys in Gilroy used an S&S unit in the first place is that the most expensive part of any prodiction motorcycle manufacturing is going to be the R&D of the engine design.(witness what happened to Kenny Dreer's dream of a revived and more modern Norton once he decided to create his own proprietary motor in that venture)
And so, to save money they just did what they had to in order to get that Indian Gilroy operation rolling in the first place.
Last edited by Dwight; 01/24/2008 8:25 PM.
