We've finally got my dad's WLA up and running with the minimum of leaks and I've had a blast just cruising around breaking her in. This really got me missing having my own bike. I had an MC license a full year before I had a car license when I was 16. I haven't really ridden much since i had to sell my Triumph when I was 20.
Sooooo, I'm looking into getting my own bike again. I'd really like a WLA, but I'd also like something that I would be able to share with the little lady to keep bit-ching to a minimum. I know it was not very common but did WLAs ever use sidecars in the ETO? I'd really like to get something that would fit in with the rest of my ETO vehciles. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks.
WLA with sidecar?
- Drew Ballard
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WLA with sidecar?
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7/27/43 GPW; '43 Bantam T3; 4/21/41 CCKW-353-B1; '44 Ben Hur ; 11/44 42WLA ; '42 WC-27; '45 EAT; '41 WC-7
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Re: WLA with sidecar?
Drew,Drew Ballard wrote:We've finally got my dad's WLA up and running with the minimum of leaks and I've had a blast just cruising around breaking her in. This really got me missing having my own bike. I had an MC license a full year before I had a car license when I was 16. I haven't really ridden much since i had to sell my Triumph when I was 20.
Sooooo, I'm looking into getting my own bike again. I'd really like a WLA, but I'd also like something that I would be able to share with the little lady to keep bit-ching to a minimum. I know it was not very common but did WLAs ever use sidecars in the ETO? I'd really like to get something that would fit in with the rest of my ETO vehciles. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks.
WLAs did not have sidecars in the US service. Big twins "U" models did; though they are much harder to find. Russians and Australians did put sidecars on their WLAs. If you are interested in WLAs join my Yahoo group. I posted about it a couple of days ago.
Dave Thomas
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1942 Harley WLA
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JOIN MY 42 WLA yahoo group
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/42WLA/
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