Todd,
Those bags were manufactured by Buco in 1964, never used(N.O.S.) in the original carton, and I found them on an Ebay auction a little over a year ago. Won the auction with only a $94.00 bid, perhaps because it's final bid minutes were during the 3rd quarter of last years Superbowl. Bags such as those usually go on ebay for two to three times that. I also designed and built the triangulated aluminum brackets that hold 'em onto Bonnie's flanks.
I'm glad you agree that the footpeg bracket and the position on the bike is, in my view, the perfect place for them to be. They should have been painted black though(you can see the surface rust, can't ya), something which I never got around to doing.
Oh, as you can see they're 1/2 inch steel...not 3/8 as I earlier stated. Maybe over-engineered a bit, but better safe than sorry.
I think that if you'd plot this out on paper and take a scrap piece of 1/2in. steel, that you could get at a metal yard, and take those plans to your local machine shop, they could probably make them for you at a very reasonable price.
Oh, one more thing! Note that the upper inside of the horizontal section has a 45 degree groove ground into it. That's so the frame, which kind'a curves out, doesn't make the bracket angle down, and allows it to be perfectly vertical.
Let me know if you have anymore questions.
Dwight
