Glad I kept the picture

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Faskinatin' Footnote from the Wall St Journal

A footnote: There is a certain element of should-have-known-better in this story. This isn’t the first time Harley-Davidson has had a hard time with an Italian acquisition. In the 1960s it bought a stake in Aermacchi, a maker of small off-road bikes as a way to expand into new markets. Eventually it bought the whole company, but that move also eventually failed and Harley sold Aermacchi in the late 1970s. The sellers and buyers: the Castiglioni brothers.

Article here
http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/20...ort-bike-unit/

Wasn't that about the time they considered the sportster was a supabike and had no prob knocking off the brits but the friggen Japs made the CB750 Honda ? So got some sort levy against them to help them catch up jappas just plain cheating IMOA

[Big Dave]

Wasn't that about the time they considered the sportster was a supabike and had no prob knocking off the brits but the friggen Japs made the CB750 Honda ? So got some sort levy against them to help them catch up jappas just plain cheating IMOA

Harley have petitioned the the Government for protection duties on more than one occasion. They tried the same thing with Triumph.

They didn't achieve the same sort of success as Aussie apples though.