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Nice try, Dwight, but the one model all the lil Indians never quit talking about is a return to the 4 cyclinder model.



I would think it would be Rich, and seeing as how that prewar model would be another memorable one from the old Indian concern...and which btw, my father owned one just before he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942...a 1939 model, as I recall him telling me.

I once had a snapshot of him as a fresh faced young man sitting on it, but somehow misplaced it over the years. Would've loved to have had that picture blown-up to poster size and displayed in my garage.

But returning to my earlier thought and my suggestion of an Indian Chief sportin' a girder front end...

Something like that would cost Polaris a heck of lot less in R&D than would a clean-sheet four-cylinder model, now wouldn't it? A LOT less, in fact. And so as I said earlier, IF Indian wants to legitimately claim they have a "new" model out for sale, then something like this would seem a no-brainer from strictly a financial POV, wouldn't you say?!

And I'm sure it would sell! In fact, you know how I've been lusting after the Springfield recently, right?! Well, if Indian WOULD offer that model with a girder front end, that COULD just be the incentive I'd need to head down to Phoenix and plunk my money down for one. It being even MORE unique in the motorcycle world.

Well, just as long as there was little to no additional premium for its alternate front suspension, anyway.

(...'cause as you and many others have said here, $21K is already a hell of a lot money for a motorcycle)

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)