The idea was to put both new machines through their paces, and award a lucrative military contract to the winner.
Eventually, the army finished its testing, and decided that neither new bike would be built. Instead, they bought several thousand more Harley WLAs. In the end, the military decided to hitch its hopes to a vehicle that could go through anything, didn’t tip over, and required very little training to operate — the Jeep.
Blame the Jeep. That’s why military motorcycles of any kind fell out of favour during World War II.
GI Joe US Army WLA 45 Harley-Davidson Military Motorcycle by HASBRO 1998
7 comments:
Nice collections man. We have the same hobby but mine is still little :)
Hi "Baseguardian" thanks for looking and thanks for the compliments. We all got to start somewhere and I also started out small. The hobby grows with time :)
Enjoy collecting and grow the passion - ha!ha!
alex, looking forward to you featuring more bikes in your subsequent posts. I'm so tempted everytime to just go over to Tai Sing toys and buy their New Ray bikes.
i like your vespa too but ran out of space already ha!ha! don't have that many bikes to feature but will post all of them on blog soon.
eh Alex if you really want to get a Vespa, please get the one with a side car ok? That one rocks!
thanks shaun, will keep that in mind if i ever feel like a vespa ;>
I have this exact model still unopened. I got it for Christmas about 15 years ago
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