[archy]

Do you live near San Diego? I'm shocked. This guy owns a bunch of Car dealerships, and he JUST opened, I mean less than two weeks ago, these Indian Dealerships.

He may not be too bad off. If Indian manages to hang in there, he should be in okay shape, and there's a better than fair chance that there'll be a lot of folks buying one while they've still got the chance. And if not, he's got his locations established and ought to be able to transition into a dealership for other bikes without too much fuss.

Indian had all their eggs in one basket and put their trust in British investment back in the early '50s and it drove them under. Now, having repeated some of the same marketing blunders that were made back then, the same thing stands a fair chance of repeating itself. Why am I not surprised?

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[Hildy]

If I read the Press Release right, there's nothing to hang on to. It says that the creditors will take over. We all know what that means. I'm afraid to call them this morning.

[Smokin' Joe]

What really hurt Indian was the US army's competition for motorcycles at the start of WWII, or just prior.

The specs called for a 500 cc motorcycle, which Indian provided, but the Harley-Davidson submission was the 45 inch flathead powered model (actually 750 cc) which took the contract.

Harley re-tooled after the depression on the Gov't contract.

Indian sold a few motorcycles, but had nowhere near the capital Harley did. Despite this, Indian managed to hang in there until after the war beefore finally going belly-up.