ok somebody enlighten me on indians

i posted below about my old neighbors indian motorcycle i was all around as a kid, now i might be off in year models, i just came from looking at a 1936 indian chief totaly restored it was asking 40 grand, for a numbers matching bike now that bike is a v-twin, and is much leaner looking, the bike the old man owned was very definatly a 4 cylinder engine inline with the bike frame exhaust on the right hand side and this was a much more robust and heavy looking bike than the chief in the sale add, im also sure he called it a chief was it a earlier model or were there 2 back then, i was around that thing almost every day for 5 or 6 years after my brain developed fully that old man taught me more about mechaninan that anybody

Google Henderson Motorcycle Inline 4 JimN

Indian made both, the V-twin and the inline 4. The 4 came first and then the V-twin and for awhile they made both.
Frank

I'm not sure if I can imbed a video or not,if not here's a link to Jay Leno's website,he has an Indian 4 in his collection,the link takes you to a short video about his bike,http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=1019383

They made the scout, brave and chief models that I know of, there may have been others. The inline 4 they made had external valves that were somehow exposed on top of the motor.

See the Movie"Worlds Fastest Indian".As a kid, dad had an 1948 Indian Chief. I never liked the right hand shifting. You had to let go of the throttle to shift. Let go of the throttle and usually it would quit running.if you forgot to check the knob that tightened down the fork it would usually be tight and it would not steer at low speeds.Harley 74 was a much better Cycle I thought."Trivia" BIL and I got an ex military Indian Scout and took it to a Hill Climb. Entered and one rule was a Kill Switch was required,so we took a pc. of strong Twine,tied it around Spark Plug Wire and BIL's wrist.Passed inspection barely. Hill was to much and twine worked.

He could not have called it a Chief but may have said Ace.After Bill Henderson was killed on a test track Ignatz Schwinn sold the company Ace Henderson to Indian the Ace name was used on the Indian fours for about two years then dropped.Henderson was like a son to Schwinn and after his death Schwinn only wanted to produce bicycles and thought motorcycles to be too dangerous.Once Harley came out with the OHV 36 El,FL [knicknamed knucklehead] it was the beginning of the end for Indian which met its basic demise in 1953 after that there was British Enfield Indians for a few more years but sales lagged and dealers went under.All Indians for the street were flatheads and 3 speed trans.Early years they had some super fast race bikes designed by an Irish born engineer named Franklin some of which were overhead valves but unfortunatly the factory did not transfer this technology to the street.After the era of Franklin they were owned by Dupont which had managment that did not ride motorcycles.In the early years the blue painted Indians were made at the Toronto factory.I learned all this at the AMA museum Indian display and hope Im remebering it correctly.

ok! the one in jay leno's video, thats the bike! the old mans was black, but that is unmistakably the same model bike, the close ups here bring back memories real sharp, my sound got ate on my computer so i cant hear what jay is saying im going to try to email it to a working computer thanks for all the info guys im saving this for later