Some photos for comparison, make up your own minds. I think the Fatboy does have some "military" qualities about it, but other than the Air force symbol, rear wheel, and the silver color, I don't see much to compare.



Wheels









Air force symbol






Fat Man/Little boy bombs








Original Fatboy with yellow stripes







Not sure where the 7 yellow rings came from. I have seen black and white/color photos of both bombs and cannot find any yellow rings on them. If anyone has a photo of the rings, please post it, then I'll be convinced. I think one poster hit on the idea of HD performing an "attack" on the Japanese motorcycle domination during the 70s and 80s. This being reflected in the Fatboy design style.

 

Thanks for the correction, I'm not of a military backgroung.

 

Some where in my past, I saw a show on TV about the Special Missions on the two B-29's and I "think" they said there was a new solid wheel built just for these missions on delivering the atomic bombs. I assume for the rear trunnion axil wheels, that carry all the wieght.
I'll keep looking...
A two piece cast 55" rim that was bolted together was standard on the B-29's, part # w3-101-hayes.

 

7 rings are
1.ignition
2.front rockerbox
3.rear rocker box
4.primary cover
5.timing cover
6.lh side gas tank
7.rhside gas tank
what does it mean though????

 

Hello,

I like to build the Fatboy as a model in scale 1/6 in the 1990 version. To do so, I need the original color. I asked the local Harley-Dealer, but in Germany I can´t get the color anymore. Is anyone there, who has an idea, how the color can be mixed in a local paint store?

Thanks for help !

 

Where did you find that bit of info?
To my knowledge all B-29's including "Enola Gay" and "Box Car" (the A-Bomb planes) were polished and 'painted' with a type of clearcoat preservative.
At that point in the war it was felt that there was little or no need to camouflage bombers with paint. So eliminating the painting reduced manufacturing time, production man hours, and material costs while also increasing the aircrafts weight lifting capacity.
They originally stopped painting fighters like the P-51D and P-47D for the same reasons, but found that when polished it also gave benefits in both speed and range.

 

Lexus Silver
http://moneywellspent.com/4sale/1990...sanewhome.html

 

Hello TK353,
thank you for the link. I saw the interesting site before and still thinking that "lexus-silver" will not be or match the original color after restauration, because on some photos the original Fatboy looks more gray than silver. Even by the bike of the web-site from the link you sent, is a different between the color of fenders, tank, fenderstruts on one side and the frame on the other. I think the frame has still the original color. But that is hard to get.