Originally Posted by Bathog

Good old Snopes says this one is false.I read an article once where ***** G. denied the rumor too. I still like the story, either there are tons of coincidences or someone had quite the imagination to come up with all of these facts. Sometimes there is truth behind rumors, even if all the talking heads deny them.

http://www.snopes.com/business/market/fatboy.asp

Originally Posted by Duder

Of course they are going to deny the origin, are you insane enough to think otherwise? In this politically correct society we are in, everyone from Sung Soo Kim to Jesse Jackson would be petitioning with their cronies at every plant. Can you imagine the fallout from such negative publicity on the almighty stock value?

Two or three similarities is a coincidence...7 or 8 direct links to the ol bombers and bombs is too much to cast doubt on in my opinion. I for one believe it and Love it.

Originally Posted by FATBOYUSA

Do any of you Veterans out there know anything about this?

Originally Posted by drummer3278

Yeah I believe it. My Mom's Japanese, but I'm not very politically correct at all, I talk sh*t about everyone. Interesting factoid though, from my Dad (WWII & Korean Vet passed away in 96) The bomb on Nagasaki wasn't necessary to drop, but they wanted to see how an atomic worked on a hill side. Also, Nagasaki was the mecca for Christianity in Japan. Had been for many years. If most of the US new about that, they never would have dropped it. Did I open a can of worms? Some people say the Hiroshima bomb should have never been dropped. I disagree, and I was born there and speak the language. If the US would have had to invade Japan (not just Okinawa), there would have been a hell of a lot more civilian casualities. They Japanese were brain washed by there government to think of us as evil crazy. It sucks that innocent people always get shaftedand lied to by those in power, kind of what's happening here.Oops, another can of worms. I may be half Japanese, but I lide a Halrey cause it gives me an election.

Originally Posted by BigMESA

Originally Posted by drummer3278

If the US would have had to invade Japan (not just Okinawa), there would have been a hell of a lot more civilian casualities.

Originally Posted by FATBOYUSA

I am interested in seeing how many people believe the FATBOY history. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about, here is a quick summary. The story goes the HARLEY DAVIDSON named the FATBOY after the two bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WW2. The evidence is that the FATBOY logo looks alot like the Airforce logo of the time, the two bombs were called Fatman and and Littleboy, and that the bombs had seven yellow lines pinted on them. The original 1990 FATBOYS were gun metal grey and had solid disc wheelsjust like the B-29 bombers that dropped the bombs. The FATBOY logo looks alot like the airforce logo of the time, the original FATBOYS also had seven yellow lines in different places around the bike as did thebombsand that HARLEY DAVIDSON took the FATand BOYname partsfrom the bombs names and combined them to make the name FATBOY. Also on the '07 and'08 models the holes in the rims are the size of 50 cal. bullet holes, the same used by theB-29 bomber planes and if you look at the studs on the '07 and '08 seat, saddle bagsand the leather conchotrim ontop of the gas tank,theylook like bullet tips instead of just round studs. There are two rumors on why HARLEY DAVIDSON did all this; 1) to commemorate our victory in WW2 over the japs and 2) that HARLEY DAVIDSONS NEW FATBOY was going to be such a huge hit with the global market that it would help HARLEY DAVIDSON dominate the large bike market and make them a powerful company, the only in the USA. AND 3) to kind of rub it in the japenese's faces that HARLEY DAVIDSON and the USA were back to stay.

Please tell why you feel the way you do.

The first time that I saw a FATBOY was when TERMINATOR 2 came out and I knew the bike was a HARLEY DAVIDSON, but I had no idea what model. I went to work that night and asked my biker friends. They told me that it was A HARLEY DAVIDSONFATBOY. I was instantly in love with that FATBOY. It took me 17 years to get one, but I finaly got one. LOL.
When did you guys first see one and how long did it take to get yours?