Funny you bring this up.A good friend of mine has a softail heritage custom or something to that affect.He was pulling it apart to have a big bore kit installed all the time hes talking crap about american built this and that. I told him its assembled in america and thats it.He swore up and down i was so wrong till he pulled out like a piston, connecting rod, or something like that and stamped right in it was "built in china/taiwan".I laughed,he started off right over the deep end.It was great.