Description
Full color 8″ x 10 3/4″ ad that is for the 1969 Harley-Davidson Sportster. It’s a splendid sight seeing what the shadow behind the man standing at attention is doing; flying at a high rate of speed, driver bent low on the handlebars to minimize the wind effect. The Sportster is standing there in front of the man who would be riding as, the ad says, “The Harley-Davidson outperformers…outperform everything on two wheels”. It then says “Track, salt, street or strip, one bike is best! The 1969 Sportster. Alone at the top. Nobody builds a faster stock motorcycle. Both the lean, angry model CH and the quick, confident model H deliver 900 cc’s of punch and 58 bhp @ 6800 rpm. The Sportster really flies. And it looks as fast as it goes. The re-styled tank almost leans forward in anticipation. Newly-designed cylinder heads and new mufflers with crossover connector add a few horses to what’s already the world’s fastest motorcycle”.
Source: January 1969 Playboy magazine.
