.......just one more thing......*
If the Harley design dept. didn't fully understand what the reaction would be to the 'BoatTail FX SuperGlide', they were listening hard enough on the rebound. From the ad for 1972; Note the mst. cyl./pedal arrangement remained the same.
I haven't yet located the other parts of this particular ad.
Also, from the for-sale ad, "but few know that the first official name given by H-D to the model was Night Train. It was scrapped after a short time for unknown reasons and would become the designation for a line of Softail models many years later."
I see 'night train' in the ad picture. I don't remember It ever being called by that name much, if at all; Midnight Express seemed to possess far broader of a romantic attachment as names go......
'Midnight Express' I recall quite well; that name too, was dropped, on account, I expect, of the attached connotation that, in the press at that time, the nocturnal airborne supply line for that which was smoked or snorted was commonly referred to as the 'midnight express'.
I was in the USAF at the time and wanted a 72 badly, but the Triumph GT 6+ that caught my 19 y.o. eye won out when it came down to the must chose one or t'other. Later I worked as an A&P for a cheque-hauling FAA Part 121 flying service named Midnite Express, run by a bunch'a Eton cowboys out'a Hong Kong operating from Charlie Brown airport, a little distance west of Atlanta.
..Willie G, "Hey! I got it! Lets us use a Sportster rear fender instead. We make'em don't we?"
*from 'Columbo' and 'Dangerous Davies' my two favorite TV-scripted detectives.
