Renegade Issue 26

The bikes owner Brent Young built this bike from milk crates full of parts,

to a stock 1942 Harley. Brent and I went to high school together and we

have been great friends for years. Brent rode his flathead over one Sep-

tember day in 2009 to help out with all new brake lines for the shop truck

and when he got here we noticed that his left side gas tank was leaking

through his paint. With a quick look at his tank with an inspection camera

it was easy to see why he had sprung a leak, there was a bullet hole in the

front left of the tank! It had been braised up in the war and there was

a mushroomed out bullet in the back right corner of the tank! Talk

about one lucky GI he almost never had kids. After seeing what

had caused this, we decided to strip down the tank and why not

while we are at it give this old girl a new look. All I could think of

is what I would I want to do to a Harley if I had come back from

WWII and built a bad ass stripped down bike. So, Brent and I

brainstormed ideas and just started stripping her down to bare

bones. We ordered some aluminum heads and slapped them

on her and we made an aluminum headlight mount bracket

and took off the heavy bulky stock headlight and replaced it with

a smaller lighter light. I had a desk lamp with a chrome guard on

it that fit the newer sleek light perfect; so a few rivets and it became

a permanent fixture. As for handlebars we thought an old set of big

twin bars flipped would give her a more racy stance and they fit with a little

modification. The tail light is actually an aluminum 1940s boat light which

we gutted and set up for a tail light and made a aluminum bracket to mount

it. We stripped down a Bates style solo seat to the metal pan and mounted

it to slim the bike down a little. The paint is all Rustoleum black, paprika

and white satin spray paint, which was distressed. The license plate mount

was hammered out of some aluminum we had left over from all the other

brackets. The finishing touches were laid down by Scoot Malone who also

did the stripe work and art on the truck as well. Brent has continued to

ride this bike as his daily rider and grocery getter for years, and will for

many years to come, as it is officially his 9-year-old daughter Lillian’s bike

now. This was all in the middle of two other builds for the redneck rumble

which was a lot of late nights and early mornings but one hell of a time. My

favorite memory of this bike was Brent riding it into the Easyriders show

in Knoxville Tennessee in the snow and it took home the Limpnickie lot

trophy that year. To keep up with our builds and shenanigans hit us up on

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