2012 Harley Softail Slim

(Cars Girls Sexy Cool) With styling that’s minimal and clean, the new bike is meant to evoke a custom bobber from the 1950s. It features gloss black ‘Hollywood’ handlebars (which are characterised by their cross-brace), a low-set single seat, an absence of chrome and a thin leather strap that covers the central seam of the five-gallon Fat Bob fuel tank. According to Harley-Davidson Senior Designer Casey Ketterhagen, “It’s time to make the engine the focal point of the motorcycle, so we put a Softail on a diet to get the proportions back in check. Scale down the rear with a narrow tyre and chopped fender and the heart of the bike, the motor, once again becomes the focus. We left a gap between the nose of the seat and tank so the rider...

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Craigslist Find of the Epoch: Whatever this thing is

This Craigslist abomination is certainly a sign that something very, very evil has gone down in the Appalachian hills of eastern Kentucky.The monstrous mashup is advertised as a "1962 International rat rod?". Note the question mark. It is possibly the most important piece of punctuation in the entire listing. For this is no rat rod. Sure, it's cobbled together with pieces of several other vehicles, and at least some of it is unpainted. But rat rods are cool. This is, well, rat wrong. Or maybe just rat.Features include the best of all three vehicles. It's got an Olds dashboard, tilt steering, cruise control, power seats, and, we think, alloy wheels. Below the beltline are the ribbed side panels of a Pontiac Grand...

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