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Chris-Craft Owners Buy Indian Motorcycle Company
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Posted on 08/03/2004 4:36:39 PM PDT by chemicalman
The company that owns and revived Chris-Craft boats and Outboard Motor Corporation has purchased the remains of the Indian Motorcycle Company, which shut its doors in September 2003. The new owner is Stellican Limited, a private equity firm headquartered in the UK that specializes in reviving ailing recreational product companies with strong brand names and also owns firms in unrelated industries like soft drinks and cash registers. It has a U.S. office in Florida. Because its principals supply their own capital, it is less likely to encounter the problems other would-be motorcycle makers have when more capital was required.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: boats; chriscraft; indianmotorcycle; motorcycles
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To: Willie Green
Wille, check my post 20. I think it tails in well with what you said in your post.
21
posted on
08/04/2004 12:45:05 AM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men are ready to do violence on our behalf)
To: martin_fierro
Why not? AMF owned Harley for a while.
22
posted on
08/04/2004 12:48:10 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(This tagline has been temporarily disconnected or is out of service....)
To: Willie Green
Marketing people tend to believe that hyping an "established" brand name is all that is necessary to sell cheap junk to the dumbed-down mass market
Yup, At several times in my career, I've worked with some of these types. They try to sell their clients, whether internal or external, on the idea that they can "unlock the value of a brand" without giving much rational thought to either the product itself or the consumer who'd buy it. As you well know, such people are the driving force behind ads and junk mail.
23
posted on
08/04/2004 1:34:05 AM PDT
by
pt17
To: chemicalman
It is time for them to be more than a HD copy.
24
posted on
08/04/2004 5:24:16 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
To: Smokin' Joe; JoeSixPack1
Why not? AMF owned Harley for a while. Yes. Yes, they did. <|:(~
25
posted on
08/04/2004 8:14:50 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Flip Spiceland, where are you?)
To: Bars4Bill
There's a restored 1947 Indian on display at a beer pub in my town. The owner bought it in Bombay India.
26
posted on
08/04/2004 8:17:30 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Bush is Hell on liberals and terrorists.)
To: martin_fierro
All the soul of a riding lawnmower.
27
posted on
08/04/2004 8:19:43 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(It's a man's life in the Cardiff Rooms, Libya)
To: chemicalman
Once again, the world is made safe for V-twinkie powered, slow, expensive bikes for dentists and their fat wives!
28
posted on
08/04/2004 8:19:52 AM PDT
by
Cogadh na Sith
(I shook my inner child until its eyes bled...)
To: Petronski
It gave you a fashionable black racing stripe up your back.
That conveniently matched its 2-stroke oil.
29
posted on
08/04/2004 8:25:14 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Flip Spiceland, where are you?)
Maybe the new "owners" will do the right thing and call them "MOTOCYCLES" like the original wigwam in Springfield did. The crate-motor bolt-up skirted fendered HD clones never appealed to me. Pop an updated Vincent Rapide or Shadow motor in a replica 46-53 Chief/Roadmaster frame and I'll buy... but not something with an aftermarket HD motor....not that I have anything against Harleys (I do have one).
Hell, just update the '46 Chief so it can pass DOT regs and I'll be there tomorrow. I did see three REAL Indians on the road in CT last weekend. Out on a nice rural stretch of Rte 6, one guy was really giving what looked like a '46 the stick being chased by a NICE Knuck....awesome.
30
posted on
08/04/2004 8:31:37 AM PDT
by
Range Rover
(Greenpeace is a cult...and Kerry is a Fraud)
To: martin_fierro
A two-stroke Harley? Am I misunderstanding you?
31
posted on
08/04/2004 8:35:40 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(It's a man's life in the Cardiff Rooms, Libya)
To: martin_fierro
32
posted on
08/04/2004 8:36:20 AM PDT
by
wjcsux
(Don't be a girly man! Vote Republican!)
To: leadhead
I owned one once. Bought it at the Houston Auto Auction and the former title holder was Carlos Regalos from Nogales TX.
It was my Kalamazoo Cadillac, all done up in crushed velvet with rose colored tinted windows and extra large bumpers fore and aft.
Simply the best Gulf Coast fishing car one could have.
To: martin_fierro
One of my favorite 2-wheeled machines...
34
posted on
08/04/2004 8:39:08 AM PDT
by
wjcsux
(Don't be a girly man! Vote Republican!)
To: Petronski
Well,
this page references a four-stroke HD SS-350, but I could swear the manual called for two-stroke oil. 'Course, this was over 20 years ago.
35
posted on
08/04/2004 8:39:54 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Flip Spiceland, where are you?)
To: wjcsux
Fuah! Yours, mine, and everybody's. <|:)~
I'd be reluctant to take that beauty out on the road.
36
posted on
08/04/2004 8:43:21 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Flip Spiceland, where are you?)
To: Petronski
and the reliability of a Yugo....
37
posted on
08/04/2004 9:01:17 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(This tagline has been temporarily disconnected or is out of service....)
To: martin_fierro
...and If I won the lottery, that Series D and a 101 Scout would sit next to this in the garage (I love that it's not a trailer queen too)...we can all dream, can't we?
38
posted on
08/04/2004 9:03:02 AM PDT
by
Range Rover
(Greenpeace is a cult...and Kerry is a Fraud)
To: VOA
39
posted on
08/04/2004 9:38:18 AM PDT
by
OKSooner
To: Richard Kimball
GM must be run by a bunch of ex-KMart executives now.Sadly, the Baby Boomers now in charge of automotive Marketing don't even understand their own generation well enough to exploit it at the peak of the 'Boomers buying power. All they have to do is duplicate the CLASSIC cars of the '50s and '60s, staying as visually identical to the originals as is possible. Of course, the '04 version of a '64 Mustang (for instance) would still have all the modern automotive technology (under the hood) that was not available back then. (Fuel injection, anti-lock brakes, AM-FM stereo CD sound system, etc. etc. -- whatever technological improvements and conveniences that make today's cars BETTER than the classics, but don't affect "the look" that Boomers nostalgicly crave.
Any of the classic "muscle cars" would also be an instant success if given the same treatment. Boomers loved and admired 'em, but many were simply too young to afford them. (And there's no doubt that those who DID own one back then would LOVE to have a modern version of their first car!)
Heck, the Big Three would think they struck the Mother Lode if they did something like that!
Stupid marketing sissies are too dumb to go for it.
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