Don't know if this has been posted before or not-
Here's a pic from the Museum of the first Softail. note the Suspension is under the seat.
Read the article
http://images.search.yahoo.com/image...q4&fr=chr-tyc8

 

Gotta love the two oil leaks on the ground. haha

 

Thanks for the link. Worth reading about how it got started.

 

Hmmmmm... yeppers,, dont think Ive seen this one.... good post....

 

man that pulled some heart strings my best buddy bought a used 84 that year from a banker it was fairly rare to see one the engine serial #s had a bunch of stars in it not numbers he rode it to Sturgis that year and was treated like the new kid on the block it was a black one and I fell in love with it I finally got mine 6 months later it was an 85 model last year for chain drive kicker and 4 speed trans oh the memories we rode them to Sturgis in1988 and arrived on 8-8-88 Thanks FLH80 I'll post some pics and put them in my alblum

 

But it is a Shovelhead, just the way they were

 

Pretty cool. I bet this is the one Harley came up with. Shocks working in compression versus expansion like they do on a Softail or a Buell.

That's got to be a prototype from the very early 70s. Note the juice brake and the old style master cylinder.

 

Thanks for the post... some interesting information!

 

very cool looking scoot

 

Very interesting article. I didn't realize Softails were as "young" as they are. I always thought they were introduced in the 70's. I will go back and revist my Harley history books :-)