1950 Harley-Davidson FL.  I received a phone call from a good friend of  mine the other day, he said if you want to see  it you'd better hurry.  I knew what it was, he  had e-mailed me some pictures about  a week  earlier, and YES I wanted to see it!  It was  like one of those Big Fish stories.  You know,  the big one that got away?  Well this one is  different.  This one didn't get away.   He had  somehow found a 1950 Harley-Davidson FL  straight from the barn since 1961.  When I met up with him to witness his prize  catch, it was like going to one of those living  history farms.  Seeing it was like looking back  in time.  It was exactly what I remembered a  motorcycle looked like when I was a kid.  It  was the kind of Bike I tried to make my first  bicycle look like.  Back to a time when a guy  rolled his jean cuffs up and kept his cigs safe  in his T-shirt sleeve.  Wow, and to think it was  put in a barn for storage before the Beatles  invaded the U.S. How cool is that?  We drooled and dreamed over it for a while,  imaging all sorts of  stories that this machine  could tell.  And now it's on to another chapter  in it's life.  The reason I'd better hurry if I  wanted to see it.  You see the new owner  didn't want to invest the time and money  needed to restore it.  Yet he knew it was to  rare a find to leave alone.  He thought there  might be a lot of interest in an original 1950  Harley so he put  his big fish on E-Bay.   Sure  enough, he had people from all over including  Japan bidding on it.  It wasn't till the last three  seconds of bidding, that a man from Texas  submitted the winning bid and became the new  owner of a little piece of history.   How neat it was to see this icon before it  left for Texas.  I don't know what plans the  new owner has for it but I'm glad I had the  opportunity to see, touch and take a few  photos of it.  I guess those once in a lifetime  opportunities really do happen.