A Friend Brought Us A New Piece Of History! 

I met Dale many years ago at the Mount Vernon shop when I was Harley shopping. He showed me a few new bikes then asked me if I liked old bikes and I told him that I loved them. He forgot about selling me a bike and we spent 3 hours in the museum and he told me about his dream to move the museum. He treated me like an old friend and when I brought my brother to see the museum he remembered me and we walked by the new bikes and went directly to the museum and we spent hours looking at the collection. I am proud that Matt is keeping Dales sprit alive and I know he is proud of him. When we were discussing a new bike he even offered to help with the down payment. He was a true ambassador to the motorcycle world and it has definitely been passed down to Matt. I tried to visit you a few years ago however the museum was closed but I will make it soon.

So proud of Matt, he really does his late great dad Dale justice. It's like he went to the motorcycle college of knowledge.

WOW 😢. Great motor but the way Matt can just rattle things off is amazing!

Always cool when a WTT video pops up.

Great Find!! Congrats.

This is aweome! I'm looking forward to spotting it in person!

Somehow y’all have to get back to that gentleman’s collection. Preserving that history!

Another fantastic video. Props to that man for scavenging such a great find. This is how it all begins, and your Dad's legacy lives on.

Matt..... your knowledge...is just amazing..., a walking encyclopedia...!!!!! keeping the history alive....!!!!!

Goosebumps and tears when you turn that crank by hand ... 👍👍

What an awesome find!

The job that dreams are made of. Keep up the good work Matt.

I love this stuff I love will wheels through time I’m from Hammond and I remember going to Harry moaners when I was a little kid with my dad got a beautiful 1978 XLCR bought brand new from Harry’s still got the original 1978 plate and hairy Molnar plate bracket Thanks for keeping his old bikes alive.

Pretty Darn Amazing... People Parts and Stories. Just Incredible. Keep Up the Great Work... Brother

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. HATS OFF TO YOU.

...just an incredible find.

Mate how is it possible to get something like that! Matt your mate bringing that engine is a legend! Kudos to you Paul. Three separate number one engines is incredible I'll be hanging out to see you complete the bike so please show your fans everything from tearing it down (if needed) to the frame assembly everything mate. Have a ripper mate!

Definitely interesting history, but really got a chuckle, about how things have changed, when the picture of Joe on a race bike dressed in a shirt & tie, with a sweater... Not only style, but respect... Thanx !

What an awesome pc of history, wtg Paul.

I was up there for the raffle of the last knuckle head. I have got to say this greatest place for motor cycle history. The people are awesome, the bikes are incredible. One of the best trips to I have ever been on. I can't believe it has taken me this long to get there. Thank you Matt, and crew. I wish I could have met Dale before he passed. AMAZING PLACE.

Serial #1, wow! It doesn't get much better than that!

Love this channel! Always the coolest bikes and rare finds! Thanks so much for doing this

Nice find really cool motor numbers some one watching over you guy's you can't get that lucky God Bless

amazing find! also your jacket looks pretty cool too!

In Phil Irving's iconic book, "Tuning For Speed" he recommended blocking off one exhaust port in any dual port, 2 valve engine.

Sweet Score 👍

Very cool!

So so much history! Incredible!

Great find, Paul ✅ And good work getting it dawn to Matt..!!!

Another awesome piece of racing history that no doubt will be a runner soon.......Dale is grinning......right now.....

That is so damn cool. I love these episodes we never know what we're going to see next and it's always mind blowing. I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving happy holidays to all y'all much love ❤️👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Very, very cool. Hopefully the guy with all of the parts will let the museum have/buy some of them. Keep the good stuff coming guys.

Cool stuff!! Did you guys ever get that sprinkler system upgrade done?

These engines sure are pretty. The 35 looks new 👍

Iconic piece of history,found its home👌👌

Amazing find for the future of the museum ! Wow , thanks for sharing Matt !

The knowledge this guy has needs to be passed on before it's lost. Incredible.

Very cool. Someday I hope to make it that far east and check out the museum.

Has to be the funnest class to race. Might need to sweet talk this old Mt.Climber. Get him a pocketbook sweetener. He has what it's about, trying to find where it goes. He could have the 2 you're missing. Hope you have had a profitable year. Hope you smash all maintenence, and expansion goals.

Matt carries a ton of knowledge.

Impressive collection building of #1 off the line motors.

Amazing how these things survive great video bud now when do we see that fully loaded red knuckle you brought back from the auto jumble??

Top Blokes!! Top Viewing!!

Pauls a massive legend,much love and respect from Australia

Bring the old guy down to visit! He might think that is the place for his dad's collection?

Great find and a great friend with the same passion to keep HD history alive.

I really enjoyed my time there. I need to come back soon.

Huge score! Hope to see who raced the bike the motor came out of.

Matt, you need to find out where this barn owner drinks coffee and be there! I wouldn't want to guess what that P shooter engine might be worth- awesome find! FR

Really special piece there.

Aloha from Hawaii Hope to come visit someday. Great Videos.

great video! thanks for your passion!

It your knowledge that makes this channel so enjoyable, keep it up, your museum is a NATIONAL treasure

awesome find!!!!

Thanks buddy..

Wheels through time is definitely on my bucket list!!! Such amazing pieces of history ❤️

amazing find

Love this content. Keep it coming

#1of 1?? Holy crap! That's awesome, Matt!

That's a great find...

Just like Christmas morning Matt

" MATT " YOUR DAD IS SMILING FROM ABOVE !!!!

Thanks for the great content.

Amazing!!!!!!

Super cool

That is super cool

Hello Matt my Dad an a few friends in England in the late 1950s all had contemporary British hotrods of the day, BSA GoldStars or Norton Inters. But they also where buying up earlier Raceing Machines to Race around various dis used aerodromes, mainly KTT or KSS velocettes but amongst them was a Twin Port Rudge, this thing was fast! Unusually it had metal sleeves in the twin exhaust ports that sat in an internal shoulder an where held in place by the exhaust downpipe an nut. This was by all accounts for running different compression pistons for when on methanol or other dope race fuels, you could adjust the Port size an thus alter the Velocity I guess an reduce the flow at the same time. Maybe a Pea Shooter could run with an unblocked port if sleaved down?! They first came across these sleeves when the exhaust got loose an they rattled to hell, they thought it was a Goosed Motor. It had more go than the vellocettes which was a big surprise. Multiple sleeves one within another. Best to you best to all.

Awesome find. Can't wait to get back up to WTT.

Thanks

That's a friend!

Cool video! Why is there a "2-29" forged in the bottom end? Did Harley hang on to parts that long before they were used and serialized?

#1= amazing.....Thanks Matt..... Shoe🇺🇸

Great find

HOLY COW

WOW ! Very Nice!!!

Is the best friend to forever

There was a guy in the '60s that a barn full of Indian parts. His main ride was a '53 Indian 80. He'd bought it new. He's been dead a long time, no idea what happened to the barn full of parts.

Thanks Matt 👍

That is so cool, I want to take it apart for some reason.

Had a BSA single motor, that had twin port head with one port blanked off, must have been some 'know how' behind the mod'.

🇺🇸 Outstanding Find

greatest museum in the world

Would love to hear that engine fire up

Cool

Great motorcycle history but the older generation appreciates this stuff. Younger people dont care about history.

What jacket is Matt wearing? Looks nice!

Wow!

My dream is to one day tour the museum,and meet Matt

👍👍

As usual always enjoy 🤓

Did you get my text with my address so you can send whatever I w o n to my house. It's so cool I can't wait till I find whatever I got. I hope the guy who got the Harley knucklehead enjoys the bike.

👍☮️🇨🇦

Also stuff

Plot twist: ALL of those engines came with the last two digits “01”. Turns out Barney the serial number stamper was really lazy and figured nobody would ever know. 😅

Holy smokes....

So depressing to see all the advances in modern motorcycle technology has only gotten us to the point of throw away bikes. You'll never see a 2024 Harley Davidson product still running in 100 plus years.

Lete guess more Harley shit !! God I miss your dad !

What a great find!!