Prewar=Frontloader? Postwar=Toploader?

[fordmike65]

So....did both Delta & EA go to toploaders after WWII? Or were they still using frontloaders just after the war once production started back up? I have a '46 dated Rollfast that has many prewar characteristics, so I imagine it's a very early postwar bike. Trying to figure out whether I should install a front or top loader. Thanks for any help. Mike

 

[bike]

delta had a top loader that had a screw in the bezel and a pin in the back (instead of slip in and spring in the back) seems like 41-46 kind of a rare light

Bitchen gooseneck by the way... wonder where you could find a nos one>>?
ps
never seen post war alum fends-thanks!!!!!!!!!!!


PPS
are those front fender braces curved or funaked?!

 

[fordmike65]

delta had a top loader that had a screw in the bezel and a pin in the back (instead of slip in and spring in the back) seems like 41-46 kind of a rare light

Bitchen gooseneck by the way... wonder where you could find a nos one>>?
ps
never seen post war alum fends-thanks!!!!!!!!!!!


PPS
are those front fender braces curved or funaked?!

funaked

 

[bike]

... sorry to hear it====diggin this bike

 

[fordmike65]

... sorry to hear it====diggin this bike

Braces just need a lil straightening. No idea if the fenders are original to the bike or not, but I'm not complaining.

 

[SKIDKINGSVBC]

It's a real cool looking bike ..Saw it in person at the Iron Ranch ...Like a lot of other bike manufactures , They were all using leftovers from before the war and trying to figure out how to utilize what they had and still make it look like something new for 46...