Thank you for the nice comments; they are much appreciated.
Charlie, I have no idea what will happen to the prototype tank or even if it will be finished off with bung, etc. Probably will, but it might be seriously flawed or something. Too soon to tell. It's purpose is to guide us in making the copper tank. It would only fit a Worksman Newsboy frame. You could ask Tinsmith about it as he will be the one who made it. I do little things, but he's the man.
Steve, I have no real idea what there might be in future builds. I need to finish up the 1934 Elgin next summer to sell, still have a lot of work to do on the AMF/Tomos "Orphan", need to make an inframe tank for the 50 Panther and am seriously thinking about a Velocar using the rest of the Grumman canoe for the body. That's a lot on my plate already and as I said, leaves need to appear on the money tree which by all appearances is dead. And I'm getting old; 67 next month. I don't want to be building bikes all summer... I wanna ride and do some fishing. It's hard picturing not having some kind of project to work on through a long winter, however. That would be the Velocar, which might take a long time. We'll see. The focus now is on this Indian Hiawatha which has been in the works for some time. This is going to be a seriously fun bike. Woohoo!
I want to hear that Sachs, too. I'm hoping the engine has some serious power, but with 2 speeds I guess it doesn't really need to. I don't expect to be running it very fast anyway, especially with a sidecar, but it's nice to feel some response when you goose it, right?
SB