The most beautiful bike I have ever seen. I saw one at the Ford museum when i was a boy. I was so disappointed to find out that Indians were no longer made. Fast forward and I ride one every day. Would love to own a 39 and 40 Indian. Just gorgeous rides.
I’m a fan of this channel ; and you did a STELLAR job sharing your knowledge to MY favorite Indian motorcycle ! It ripped my heart out at the end , where we couldn’t actually go down the road and hear and see you go through the gears … Peace ☮️
My friends grandfather gave him one when he was in high school that was in his barn. He had the engine rebuilt, painted the frame and sheet metal. NEVER put it all together and let it sit for 10 years. Then he sold it for $8000. I still shake my head when I think of it.
Love the Indian content, keep it coming! The 38-39 fours are incredible bikes, as are the late 30s Chiefs - definitely the peak era for Indian. Awesome video as always Matt!
Thank you for the close-up look at the cutting edge technology of the day back in' 39. So much to take in, the bike seems like it was built for a lefty, but that front wheel rocker set up is something to see. Great job as always.
Love Indians. I think it would be cool to rework a modern Indian to function like an old one. Foot clutch, right hand shift on the tank. Left hand throttle. Love these videos! Thank you for posting!
Ruff life and morning, Matt. Think I will fire up the Indian 4 today! LUCKY DAWG! This is the formula for never working a day in life for some people! Best cycle museum in the states by far! Keep up the great work you all do. Peace!
My all time favorite motorcycle. Never owned or even sat on one but the look is one of a kind. Thank you for your video featuring this really cool old bike.
I leave his breakdowns on in the background in my office.... He's awesome.. the passion as a subject matter expert is so apparent. if youre considering sellign your classic bike... selling to his organization ensures your product lives the very best life in its next chapter
The is OT, but I can't help but notice that your user name conveys a pro-American sentiment, but the upside-down flag in your icon conveys the exact opposite. So are you a jingo-istic, right-wing fascist, or a commie revolutionary advocating for the violent overthrow of the country? (I am going to pretend that the two are diametric opposites, as they were before Cadet Bone Spurs managed to merge them into a single, albeit insanely cognitively dissonant, worldview.)
I would so love to come to the museum and spend the day, but sadly been diagnosed with blood clots in my leg and told I can't travel from the UK anywhere via plane......devastated, looks like bike heaven
I'm the proud owner of a 1942 Indian 442 that still wears it's WW-2 military accoutrements. I found her in a barn in the late 70's and talked the old farmer into selling her to me. She's Olive Green and ugly to most people but she will always be my homecoming queen.
I was born in Spfld, MA. You are correct, Indians were bad ass in the day. Beautiful bike and beautiful sound. I'll be at the museum in a couple of weeks for the 5th time. I love your museum.
I just watched this video today. When I was a boy, my dad had a '41 Chief with that in-line 4. The skirted fenders and rear suspension. At 6 years old I would bet dads friends that I could start this beast. He would crank the timing way back, I would grab the kick starter with both hands and give it a push. His friends would howl when that thing came to life. I now have a scale model of it but wish I still had his bike.
Rode with a few of em. They sound great like a fine tractor pulling the hills. My grandfather rode with them when they were a new style machine. He had a late teens scout. Great stories about great times.
I really enjoy your videos on the old bikes great to see them being cared for and shown to everyone. You are a lucky man getting to something that it appears you really have a passion for
I rode one of those ONCE when I was about 15 years old, back in about 1953. I was hanging around the Smith and Enander Indian dealership in Rockford Illinois when a guy who had just bought a well-worn used one needed somebody to drive it home. I didn't have a driver's license, so I had to take back roads to get out of town. On the way, I was leaning into a long left hand curve above a high drop off to the right. As I gunned it, the clutch began slipping, the motor speeded up a LOT and the torque stood the bike straight up. I almost lost it over the bank, but did manage to keep it up. That was the last inline bike I ever rode. Not saying it was a bad bike, but that and that suicide clutch, as you mentioned, was enough for me. My dad was an Indian guy too, by the way.
As a kid in the 60s I had a chance to pick up a Henderson 4 basket case but instead I chose the WRL basket. Much later (2001) I had an aircraft interior shop in FL and the guy that bought and resurrected Henderson (for a while) kept his plane in our hangar.
Thank You and the whole crew that keeps WTT going . Never forget when I found out about you guys on the Discovery channel about 10 years ago . Was really excited to find this channel years later !
Great stuff as usual Matt. Imagine a world where you couldn’t go and experience what museums like this have too offer! Unfortunately all over the USA and the world for that matter, places like this are having to close because of lack of interest/funding. National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa Iowa is the most recent. They will be closing permanently in September of this year. Keeping the lights on is an enormous amount of work and expense! SUPPORT places like DWTT by visiting, buying merchandise, becoming a donor! Tell your friends, share the videos! These guys are doing next level stuff to keep Dales dream alive! Hats off my friends, and God bless all of you and your families !
The Harley tank shifter scenario is terrifying enough. Can't imagine the throttle on the other side. I remember seeing one of these in a motorcycle magazine (Easyriders?) back in the 70's.
Your very very knowledgeable person your dad taught you so so much I watched lots of your fathers shows loved em all .. your walking in your fathers footsteps which is a very good thing keep museum going
The video I had to rewind some of the video I had to go get a towel because I was drooling awesome I have Indians I like some of the forgotten history after 53 just kind of cool
I love my 2019 Indian Springfield, and think Polaris did a fantastic design with the TS 111 engine, but wish that they could come up with a 4 cylinder as another homage to these wonderful machines of the past, just so us mere mortals might be able afford something similar. Long live Indian Motocycle!
Absoloutely georgeous scooter. This is my favorite era of motorcycles and cars from America. Things were built to last by people that cared about producing a high quality product. Then, the bean-counters in quest of profits took over.
So nice. Twisted Oz motorcycle museum in Augusta, Ks has one much like this, in dark blue I think. It took a while but eventually I came to see these as perhaps the handsomest motorcycles I've seen in my 66 years involved with bikes. Something very special with the balance to the eye.
My brother makes scaled down replicas of these vintage bikes. For me I had back in the day a 68 Honda CB350 and he made the sculpture of it and the details are incredible. He did a Hendersen for someone else and like mine the detail is incredible and accurate.
I love your channel. Not only it's an historical source, very well explained and narrated, but being italian - that means pizza, spaghetti and of course poor english, I'm sometimes in trouble watching those channels where they speak so fast that I can only follow the video using subs. You not only are relating the history of every bike in a captivating way, but you also talk so well and slowly that I understand almost everything. Many thanks for your channel, for your patience explaining the history of the finest motorcycles ever produced and for the museum.... I hope some day to finally come in the States and visit it! Cheers from Brazil! (yes, I'm italian, actually, but I'm living in Brazil :-)
I love the henderson fours used around 1930 by the police but i had no idea this indian 4 was made. Its absolutely beautiful and i cant imagine what one would sell for in auction today. And they had this great technology pre ww2. Amazing.
"Goin for a ride", whatta lucky fella! An incredibly beautiful machine! I don't know if the video fully portrays the sound, but it sounds sweet! Lookin' forward to visiting Wheels Through Time and seeing this awesome ride! 👊✊👊✊✌
Those leaf spring forks are neat, but have no shock to keep them from bouncing on rough roads. Post war Chiefs had a coil fork that was used on military models and did have a shock. That and the plunger rear springs/shocks made them ride very well. I slowly rode up a dirt driveway in a 1941 four, and the front wheel came up off the ground after hitting some of those potholes!
sounds like a GSXR750 from the 80s! all it needs is a Yoshimura exhaust, a large oil cooler and 4 flatslide Keihin carbuerators to get 120hp with 140mph out of it! lets also add a front cowl and get another extra 10 mph out of it!
Very interesting, very nice bike. My father had an Indian bike when I was about 3 years old. It was blue, it was loud and he loved it....that's all I remember. He also had some kind of 3 wheeler before that but I just have one memory of it and don't know what happened to either of the bikes. I faintly remember my mother NOT liking motorcycles so....but I guess she's the only young mother to not want her toddler riding on a motorcycle and the only young mother to ever feel that way!! Women!
Back in 1996 I had a 1950 , I remember everywhere I went people wanted to see and I remember when coming out of stores people were taking pictures, I loved everything about it it was a perfect motorcycle, but One morning as I was going to work it was gone - I was like in shock - they broke the strongest lock available at time , to this day I still think about it.
These bikes are great. When I first met my soon-to-be wife, she had a pair of the most gorgeous '38's. Time and use have not been kind to these, however. Matt, are there any options left to return these long-ago stunners to their former glory?
Neat bike. It scares the heck out of me every time you ride bikes through the museum just thinking what a little oil on the floor might cause. Keep the good stuff coming guys.
You are not going to believe this. This is my favorite bike. I believe I found one similar to it in Nashville years ago in an abandoned very old building. I tried to buy the building hoping to get the bike as well. I was a Realtor at the time. They have a few at a place called Marathon Motors in Nashville. I met the older guy who owned the building at the time years ago he gave me advice. Nice guy. I will check out the museum next time I am in America. I travel the world full-time now. I have seen some amazing bikes around the world. Old Japanese, German, Russian, and American bikes. Really cool to see them. I have a 1963 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors in Nashville. I hope to add an old bike and an old truck to my collection soon. Keep doing what you're doing. Love it!
Loved the I-4 predecessor Hendies and Ex-Hendies, Aces, etc. Can’t imagine having 30-45 HP and capable of over 110 MPH, (higher performance engines) starting around 1922… and being durable / dependable also. Beautiful styling / engineering for the era.
Not just a motorcycle 🏍️ it was a work of art. So advanced for the time and refined.
I’m a Harley guy, but the 38-39 Indian fours might be the best looking American bikes ever.
Harleys are so cliche.
@@deepwoods_dave7368 he said, then deepWoods Dave returned to the swamp from which he was hatched ..
I thought the 1912 Excelsior was the coolest thing I ever saw.
And I’m a Harley gal but yes, this Indian is superb.
Yeah. No on will be restoring a bagger 30 years from now.
Oh ya I would love to hear that thing run in person. Beautiful.
Definitely requesting Wheels Through Time as our family vacation!
what a great looking Indian. Great job with the details. !
Never gets old watching all those glorious motorcycles....
She's a gorgeous machine. Matt, as always you really know your motorcycles, very well done!
The most beautiful bike I have ever seen. I saw one at the Ford museum when i was a boy. I was so disappointed to find out that Indians were no longer made. Fast forward and I ride one every day. Would love to own a 39 and 40 Indian. Just gorgeous rides.
The most beautiful design in American bikes IMHO. Such classic lines. Amazing 🇺🇸
I’m a fan of this channel ; and you did a STELLAR job sharing your knowledge to MY favorite Indian motorcycle !
It ripped my heart out at the end , where we couldn’t actually go down the road and hear and see you go through the gears …
Peace ☮️
My friends grandfather gave him one when he was in high school that was in his barn. He had the engine rebuilt, painted the frame and sheet metal. NEVER put it all together and let it sit for 10 years. Then he sold it for $8000. I still shake my head when I think of it.
Indian,
My favourite motorcycle of all time
My God, I never realized what an Art Deco work of art these engines are from the side view. WOW!
Right on the money, work of art!
Love the Indian content, keep it coming! The 38-39 fours are incredible bikes, as are the late 30s Chiefs - definitely the peak era for Indian. Awesome video as always Matt!
Thank you for the close-up look at the cutting edge technology of the day back in' 39. So much to take in, the bike seems like it was built for a lefty, but that front wheel rocker set up is something to see.
Great job as always.
My dream bike. Bellllllllllissssssima. I love it nice channel amiguito
Love Indians. I think it would be cool to rework a modern Indian to function like an old one. Foot clutch, right hand shift on the tank. Left hand throttle.
Love these videos! Thank you for posting!
So glad you paid tribute to ACE and Henderson, these are truly beautiful machine.
Man, that engine is smooth. It sounds like precision and it riding out the shop was graceful. I am very very impressed.
That sound! Just gorgeous! I like the later models with skirted fenders too.
Ruff life and morning, Matt. Think I will fire up the Indian 4 today! LUCKY DAWG! This is the formula for never working a day in life for some people! Best cycle museum in the states by far! Keep up the great work you all do. Peace!
Such a beautiful bike! Every time a video is posted I’m left in awe of the collection!😮
What a machine . From 35 till 39 , the best looking and stylish ...
Wow, Very Cool, Thanks for Explaining the Real Suicide Clutch Damn with the Left hand Throttle, that would take some Getting Use To . Thanks Again Ben
i am not a bike guy,but i do love a fine machine.
Your machines are the best,i like the old stuff.
Thanks for the content.
My all time favorite motorcycle. Never owned or even sat on one but the look is one of a kind. Thank you for your video featuring this really cool old bike.
I leave his breakdowns on in the background in my office.... He's awesome.. the passion as a subject matter expert is so apparent. if youre considering sellign your classic bike... selling to his organization ensures your product lives the very best life in its next chapter
That Bike is a Masterpiece
The is OT, but I can't help but notice that your user name conveys a pro-American sentiment, but the upside-down flag in your icon conveys the exact opposite. So are you a jingo-istic, right-wing fascist, or a commie revolutionary advocating for the violent overthrow of the country?
(I am going to pretend that the two are diametric opposites, as they were before Cadet Bone Spurs managed to merge them into a single, albeit insanely cognitively dissonant, worldview.)
can't express enough respect and gratitude for your knowledge and delivery! I gotta come over the hill from Jackson Co. and see the museum!
I have worked on and ridden a beautiful 1929 Indian 4. That thing was a sewing machine. So smooth and easy to ride.
I would so love to come to the museum and spend the day, but sadly been diagnosed with blood clots in my leg and told I can't travel from the UK anywhere via plane......devastated, looks like bike heaven
I'm the proud owner of a 1942 Indian 442 that still wears it's WW-2 military accoutrements. I found her in a barn in the late 70's and talked the old farmer into selling her to me. She's Olive Green and ugly to most people but she will always be my homecoming queen.
Been to the museum and want to go again and again but I live 500 miles from the Maggie Valley so thank you Matt for the best vids on U-toob.
That looks and sounds AMAZING. Blows my mind that the bike sounds better than my 19 scout
I was born in Spfld, MA. You are correct, Indians were bad ass in the day. Beautiful bike and beautiful sound. I'll be at the museum in a couple of weeks for the 5th time. I love your museum.
I’m a Springfield boy as well. My dad worked for Indian in the early forty’s
What a beautiful bike!! I had no idea they had so much to offer in the 1930's.
I just watched this video today. When I was a boy, my dad had a '41 Chief with that in-line 4. The skirted fenders and rear suspension. At 6 years old I would bet dads friends that I could start this beast. He would crank the timing way back, I would grab the kick starter with both hands and give it a push. His friends would howl when that thing came to life. I now have a scale model of it but wish I still had his bike.
What a beautiful machine. I always liked Indian motorcycles . Still do to day. I was down to our Indian dealer drooling over the new ones.
My favorite! I had the opportunity to sit on this machine last year, you guys rock!
Rode with a few of em. They sound great like a fine tractor pulling the hills. My grandfather rode with them when they were a new style machine. He had a late teens scout. Great stories about great times.
I really enjoy your videos on the old bikes great to see them being cared for and shown to everyone. You are a lucky man getting to something that it appears you really have a passion for
It's one of the most beautiful motorcycles of all time.
Wow I never new how many bike brands there were.. thanks for what you do. I'm always learning.
What an awesome bike. I love inline 4s.
I rode one of those ONCE when I was about 15 years old, back in about 1953. I was hanging around the Smith and Enander Indian dealership in Rockford Illinois when a guy who had just bought a well-worn used one needed somebody to drive it home. I didn't have a driver's license, so I had to take back roads to get out of town. On the way, I was leaning into a long left hand curve above a high drop off to the right. As I gunned it, the clutch began slipping, the motor speeded up a LOT and the torque stood the bike straight up. I almost lost it over the bank, but did manage to keep it up. That was the last inline bike I ever rode. Not saying it was a bad bike, but that and that suicide clutch, as you mentioned, was enough for me. My dad was an Indian guy too, by the way.
My dream bike is the 1942 Indian 4.
Now I am definitely going to get a 39 aswell.
Have a ripper mate and great video!
how much would a 1942 Indian 4 cost today?
As a kid in the 60s I had a chance to pick up a Henderson 4 basket case but instead I chose the WRL basket. Much later (2001) I had an aircraft interior shop in FL and the guy that bought and resurrected Henderson (for a while) kept his plane in our hangar.
Love that bike. Awesome history lesson. Suicide clutch, scary. She purrs! This bike reminds me of the song by the Tubes - She's a Beauty!
shes growling like an oversized cat on steroids..
Thank You and the whole crew that keeps WTT going . Never forget when I found out about you guys on the Discovery channel about 10 years ago . Was really excited to find this channel years later !
Great stuff as usual Matt. Imagine a world where you couldn’t go and experience what museums like this have too offer!
Unfortunately all over the USA and the world for that matter, places like this are having to close because of lack of interest/funding.
National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa Iowa is the most recent. They will be closing permanently in September of this year.
Keeping the lights on is an enormous amount of work and expense!
SUPPORT places like DWTT by visiting, buying merchandise, becoming a donor! Tell your friends, share the videos! These guys are doing next level stuff to keep Dales dream alive!
Hats off my friends, and God bless all of you and your families !
There's some confidence driving through all those bikes awesome awesome
Love the black and gold and the engine not all chromed up like a lot of people would do
Amazing ahead of its time engineering,foreward thinking,style and quality.
The Harley tank shifter scenario is terrifying enough. Can't imagine the throttle on the other side. I remember seeing one of these in a motorcycle magazine (Easyriders?) back in the 70's.
A fast and lean bike, awesome!! Love that A model sound.
Super smooth ... beeeeautiful ! . That was a rocket ship in 1939 Sheeesh . I am going to your museum sir .
Had a trip there planned this week, But had to cancel it , Due to sickness. But still in the Bucket list of rides!! Really enjoy your videos...
That is one beautiful looking motorbike. And sounds great too. Worth getting used to the 'suicide' clutch for...
What an incredible bike back in the day! Amazing!
Your very very knowledgeable person your dad taught you so so much I watched lots of your fathers shows loved em all .. your walking in your fathers footsteps which is a very good thing keep museum going
The video I had to rewind some of the video I had to go get a towel because I was drooling awesome I have Indians I like some of the forgotten history after 53 just kind of cool
I love my 2019 Indian Springfield, and think Polaris did a fantastic design with the TS 111 engine, but wish that they could come up with a 4 cylinder as another homage to these wonderful machines of the past, just so us mere mortals might be able afford something similar. Long live Indian Motocycle!
I thought he was reading from a script the first 6 minutes or so, but the narration was flowing from his mind.
That sound is gorgeous!
Absoloutely georgeous scooter. This is my favorite era of motorcycles and cars from America. Things were built to last by people that cared about producing a high quality product. Then, the bean-counters in quest of profits took over.
Beautiful machine. Thanks for the demo. I sure wish they made them like that. That four cylinder is sweet!
Only a few more weeks till opening day ! Woohoo! ! ! !
I wish I could get one some day. WHAT A BEAUT.
So nice. Twisted Oz motorcycle museum in Augusta, Ks has one much like this, in dark blue I think. It took a while but eventually I came to see these as perhaps the handsomest motorcycles I've seen in my 66 years involved with bikes. Something very special with the balance to the eye.
Man shout out to you. Everytime i watch u in a video i want to learn more about bikes!
My brother makes scaled down replicas of these vintage bikes. For me I had back in the day a 68 Honda CB350 and he made the sculpture of it and the details are incredible. He did a Hendersen for someone else and like mine the detail is incredible and accurate.
I love your channel. Not only it's an historical source, very well explained and narrated, but being italian - that means pizza, spaghetti and of course poor english, I'm sometimes in trouble watching those channels where they speak so fast that I can only follow the video using subs.
You not only are relating the history of every bike in a captivating way, but you also talk so well and slowly that I understand almost everything.
Many thanks for your channel, for your patience explaining the history of the finest motorcycles ever produced and for the museum.... I hope some day to finally come in the States and visit it!
Cheers from Brazil! (yes, I'm italian, actually, but I'm living in Brazil :-)
Cool bike, solid video, hit home as I own a modern era Indian and enjoy it very much.
I love the henderson fours used around 1930 by the police but i had no idea this indian 4 was made. Its absolutely beautiful and i cant imagine what one would sell for in auction today. And they had this great technology pre ww2. Amazing.
"Goin for a ride", whatta lucky fella! An incredibly beautiful machine! I don't know if the video fully portrays the sound, but it sounds sweet! Lookin' forward to visiting Wheels Through Time and seeing this awesome ride! 👊✊👊✊✌
Wow wasn’t expecting it to sound like that!!! Very cool 🤘😎🤘
Those leaf spring forks are neat, but have no shock to keep them from bouncing on rough roads. Post war Chiefs had a coil fork that was used on military models and did have a shock. That and the plunger rear springs/shocks made them ride very well. I slowly rode up a dirt driveway in a 1941 four, and the front wheel came up off the ground after hitting some of those potholes!
My Lord, that is one beautiful piece of machinery😍😍
sounds like a GSXR750 from the 80s! all it needs is a Yoshimura exhaust, a large oil cooler and 4 flatslide Keihin carbuerators to get 120hp with 140mph out of it! lets also add a front cowl and get another extra 10 mph out of it!
Love that sound! Thanks for the video!
Magnificent bike! I love the Indians!
So iconic of a bike man those old Indian bikes are so creamy nice , talk about eye candy brother 😊
Very interesting, very nice bike. My father had an Indian bike when I was about 3 years old. It was blue, it was loud and he loved it....that's all I remember. He also had some kind of 3 wheeler before that but I just have one memory of it and don't know what happened to either of the bikes. I faintly remember my mother NOT liking motorcycles so....but I guess she's the only young mother to not want her toddler riding on a motorcycle and the only young mother to ever feel that way!! Women!
Matt you rock! Getting us Indian owners/fans/historians some great content!!
That's one of my favorite Bike's if all time... Since the first time I seen one... Thanks for sharing..
Back in 1996 I had a 1950 , I remember everywhere I went people wanted to see and I remember when coming out of stores people were taking pictures, I loved everything about it it was a perfect motorcycle, but One morning as I was going to work it was gone - I was like in shock - they broke the strongest lock available at time , to this day I still think about it.
These bikes are great. When I first met my soon-to-be wife, she had a pair of the most gorgeous '38's. Time and use have not been kind to these, however. Matt, are there any options left to return these long-ago stunners to their former glory?
Yes, there is what direction are you wanting to go with them?
Guess you never heard of a boob job?
Neat bike. It scares the heck out of me every time you ride bikes through the museum just thinking what a little oil on the floor might cause. Keep the good stuff coming guys.
You are not going to believe this. This is my favorite bike. I believe I found one similar to it in Nashville years ago in an abandoned very old building. I tried to buy the building hoping to get the bike as well. I was a Realtor at the time. They have a few at a place called Marathon Motors in Nashville. I met the older guy who owned the building at the time years ago he gave me advice. Nice guy. I will check out the museum next time I am in America. I travel the world full-time now. I have seen some amazing bikes around the world. Old Japanese, German, Russian, and American bikes. Really cool to see them. I have a 1963 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors in Nashville. I hope to add an old bike and an old truck to my collection soon. Keep doing what you're doing. Love it!
What an amazing machine! Thank you for sharing! Definitely in my bucket list once I drive by to North Carolina! Cheers 🍻!
It sounds like the Danish Nimbus motorcycle, a great sound.
Amazing video Matt! Thanks!
Beautiful bike! I've always had a thing for the 4's.
The along-the-frame inline 4 is a brilliant format. I'm surprised modern Indian haven't revived it. Would make a wonderful 21st Century tourer.
Give them time.
A piece of art absolutely beautiful!
Beautiful American Machine, Thank You Matt 🇺🇲
Thought I passed Matt up near radford va on i81 this week pulling in closed trailer.
That’s a stunning motorcycle, thank you for sharing
Got to come out and see y'all and get the ticket for the knuckle head also
Loved the I-4 predecessor Hendies and Ex-Hendies, Aces, etc. Can’t imagine having 30-45 HP and capable of over 110 MPH, (higher performance engines) starting around 1922… and being durable / dependable also. Beautiful styling / engineering for the era.