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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nFORECAR<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n WORTHINGTON OVERGREEN LAWNMOWER ENGINES<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n LR-64 DRONE ROCKET ENGINE<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n UTILICAR<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n TOMAHAWK BOATS<\/strong> First published in Issue 052 of <\/em>HOG\u00ae<\/sup> magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Harley-Davidson is famous for its motorcycles, but here are five more unusual items the Motor Company made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-arquivos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Motor Company\u2019s \ufb01rst three-wheeled vehicle \u2013 the Forecar \u2013 was produced between 1913 and 1915 and used for commercial delivery. Offered in one model, it used a standard Harley-Davidson twin cylinder chain drive motorcycle with the front fork and wheel replaced with a delivery box over two front wheels connected to the steering head. The Forecar had a 600-pound payload capacity and carried everything from mail to groceries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Five-things-2_v2-1024x1022.jpg\")
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Starting in 1929 and continuing throughout the Great Depression, Harley-Davidson began supplying single-cylinder side-valve engines to the Worthington Mower Company to power its Overgreen model lawnmowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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In the mid-1960s, AMF entered into a contract to build small rocket engines for the U.S. military. The LR-64 engine propelled the AQM-37A Supersonic target drone used to simulate incoming ICBM attacks from foreign aggressors in jet \ufb01ghter training exercises. The contract continued through the AMF Harley-Davidson merger era (1969-1981) and beyond, with the Motor Company producing the LR-64 engine for nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Five-things-4-1024x1022.jpg\")
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In 1965, Harley-Davidson debuted the Utilicar, based on the successful Model D Golf Cart. An electric model was made for use inside factories and a gasoline model was produced that could reach speeds up to 32 mph, intended for outdoor use. The Utilicar had a 750-pound payload capacity and \ufb01ve available cargo combinations: \ufb02atbed, steel cargo box, stake box, cargo stake box, and personnel carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Five-things-5-1024x537.jpg\")
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Harley-Davidson purchased the Tomahawk Boat Manufacturing Company in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, in 1961 and produced Tomahawk \ufb01berglass boats until 1965 when the focus shifted to making \ufb01berglass components for other Harley-Davidson products including the golf cart, Servi-Car, and sidecar bodies, as well as motorcycle fairings and saddlebags. Today the Harley-Davidson Tomahawk Operations produces a variety of molded composite motorcycle components, including saddlebags, fairings, and Tour-Pak luggage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n