by thefrenchowl » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:10 am
Hi Erik,
It is also well known that KR, due to racers having to prove ownership of the bike to the AMA, were subject over time to better or worse restamps when they changed hands. I've even seen photos of XLRs stamped as KRs to get around that rule...
So, restamping a KR case into another KR case is not fraudulent in me eyes, just a fact of period life, unlike stamping a K case to make it into a dubious KR if raced at the time or worse, if done today to fool the general public!
It's still in the end a set of KR matched cases whatever the stamps on it... And I still can't quite see how "they" would have re-stamped that set of cases since the pad is untouched as cast, not ground down.
If they were later than 1957 replacement cases, they would have the 4 bolt Sportster trap door, so these are earlier than 1957 and later than 1954... That window is narrow!!!
Patrick