"Christopher Tidy" wrote in message
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Damn that sucks. No way I'd buy one of those new bikes with a drip tray under
it!

For a whole, folks didn't!

It looked like Harley was going to die, but President Reagan's administration
gave them sort of a bailout in the form of stiff import tariffs for jap bikes.
That, along with some management changes, gave Harley a new lease on life.

After that, Harley somehow achieved the status of a sort of cultural icon,
and was seemingly able to sell everything they could push out the factory door.

Vaughn