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HARLEY-DAVIDSON FORTY-EIGHT SPECIAL

find a motorcycle that’s named after its petrol tank, but if anyone was going to do it, it was going to be Harley-Davidson. The iconic peanut tank which gives the Forty-Eight its name first saw the light in 1948, on a bike that could hardly have been more different from a Sportster. It was the H-D Model S, with an engine copied from the German DKW

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