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Rollie Free on an Indian?
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<blockquote data-quote="Prosper Keating" data-source="post: 8626" data-attributes="member: 1376"><p>Rollie Free even had an Indian dealership at one point, so visceral was his grudge against Harley-Davidson after a bad experience with them as a young racer in the 1920s. From an article I wrote for <em>The Times</em> in 1998:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Another passage:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It rather evokes images of our own Reverend of Stiffkey, doesn't it? Except that Rollie Free wasn't eaten...</p><p></p><p>Free's progression to a Vincent-HRD as a Harley-beating tool was logical. Just for interest's sake, here's the text of a letter from PCV to Free in 1950: <a href="http://www.myvincent.co.uk/people/letter.php" target="_blank">http://www.myvincent.co.uk/people/letter.php</a>. I remember reading a carbon copy of this letter in Robin and Dee Vincent-Day's place back in the late 1980s, when we were thinking of a book on PCV's post-Stevenage life. </p><p></p><p>PK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prosper Keating, post: 8626, member: 1376"] Rollie Free even had an Indian dealership at one point, so visceral was his grudge against Harley-Davidson after a bad experience with them as a young racer in the 1920s. From an article I wrote for [i]The Times[/i] in 1998: Another passage: It rather evokes images of our own Reverend of Stiffkey, doesn't it? Except that Rollie Free wasn't eaten... Free's progression to a Vincent-HRD as a Harley-beating tool was logical. Just for interest's sake, here's the text of a letter from PCV to Free in 1950: [url]http://www.myvincent.co.uk/people/letter.php[/url]. I remember reading a carbon copy of this letter in Robin and Dee Vincent-Day's place back in the late 1980s, when we were thinking of a book on PCV's post-Stevenage life. PK [/QUOTE]
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