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Originally Posted by tubman
After seeing all of this, I guess I was lucky that nobody was able to deliver on the "Harley 45's packed in Cosmoline" they talked about when I was in high school.
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I have an old 45 (WL) that was made in 1948 so I scoured this country and a few others for parts over the years for that restoration. Front cylinders seemed to have survived many years in cosmoline but the rear cylinders, not so much. It seems that large crates of rear cylinders were compromised by moisture and few survived. New cylinders are available now but for many years the rears were hard to find. I've only seen a few photos of a single WLA in a crate. I think it was the last survivor of the WWII era and the fellow was leaving it that way just for posterity and collector value. He'd had insane offers to sell the thing but I don't know what the status is on it now.