New Sam Pierce, Sponsor For Burt Munro's Indian Special, As Well As Indian Motorbike Specialist Inward San Gabriel
Pierce Indian was on the corner of Fairview in addition to San Gabriel avenues, adjacent to that was Pierce's home, where Munro lived from at to the lowest degree 1965-67.Way dorsum inwards their youth, Sam Pierce in addition to Rollie Free worked for the same Indian dealership agent inwards Kansas City
Pierce combed the U.S. for parts. He bought out the stocks of numerous dealers who 1 time sold in addition to serviced the swell cerise machines.
in addition to during a two twelvemonth circular the globe ride, an adventurer named Carlos Caggiani happened through Los Angeles,
in addition to Sam gave him a gratis refurbish to encounter him safely in addition to reliably the residual of the way.
From 1964 to 1966, Carlos Caggiani travelled to 26 countries on a 1947 Indian Chief motorbike amongst hardly a penny to his name. At 24 years of age, he embarked on the jeopardy of a lifetime. He spent fourth dimension amongst everyone from hapless natives inwards the Andes mountains, to rich families inwards the United States. He crossed rivers without bridges, suffered famine, intense oestrus in addition to cold, guided his motorbike through pelting in addition to snowfall storms, rode on dirt in addition to cobblestone roads, was chased past times the FBI, was shot at inwards Republic of Bolivia during a revolutionary war, in addition to had a serious accident due to a mechanical failure inwards Panama that left him hospitalized for 17 days. Now at that topographic point is a majority almost it
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He owned several British motorbike dealerships, selling Triumph, Ariel, Norton in addition to Sunbeam motorcycles. He too had an Indian dealership for a brusk time, only despite his dear of the brand, he sold it to his friend Ed Kretz (winner of the showtime Daytona 200 inwards 1937).
His concluding corporation was American Indian, where he assembled his ain “Super Scouts” from NOS parts, adding a flake of his ain flair amongst particular trunk run in addition to functioning upgrades. He sold American Indian inwards 1971.
Dan Reese, a old employee of Sammy’s who forthwith runs Indian Motorcycles of West Point, Calif
In his concluding years Sammy was the curator of Steve McQueen’s extensive motorbike collection. He died March 27, 1982, before long afterwards McQueen died from cancer.
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