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Old Sep 28, 2019 | 12:52 AM
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I bet it sounded great... Best sounding motor Harley ever built.
 
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Old Sep 28, 2019 | 01:21 AM
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It has the large hub spinner on the front wheel,probably means nothing but both lead bikes have it. If that's stock an 83-84 FLHS is my best guess.


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Old Sep 28, 2019 | 06:02 AM
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it looks like a banana caliper on the front. I don't know when HD stopped using them.
 
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Old Sep 28, 2019 | 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by 23Seven
I bet it sounded great... Best sounding motor Harley ever built.
It did sound great. I could hear him coming home from miles away, gave me time to stop whatever I wasn't suppose to be doing lol
 
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Old Sep 28, 2019 | 12:36 PM
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[QUOTE=Agoober;18576410]It has the large hub spinner on the front wheel,probably means nothing but both lead bikes have it. If that's stock an 83-84 FLHS is my best guess.

Interesting. I'm pretty sure it was stock maybe some Screaming eagle stuff. We were stateside come 83/84 and he had bought the bike prior to going oversees.
 
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Old Sep 28, 2019 | 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom84FXST
Definitely the photo...if you draw a line from the fender mount to fender mount on the forks...it has the same tweakage...

Yup photo, look at the way the headlight got oblonged in the picture, bottom of the nacel matches the fender tip for tilt.
 
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Old Sep 28, 2019 | 01:11 PM
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That looks exactly like my 84 flhs did when I first bought it in 87, stock. Same color, banana front caliper, handlebars everything.
 
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Old Sep 28, 2019 | 01:57 PM
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Yeah, the photo is fuzzy also. I remember things being fuzzy a lot back then.
 
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