{"id":283,"date":"2017-08-30T23:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/?p=283"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:57:20","slug":"1947-indian-249-scout-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/1947-indian-249-scout-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"1947 Indian 249 Scout Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-286\" title=\"Indian_Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Indian_Logo.gif\" alt=\"Indian Logo\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/strong><strong>T<\/strong>his bike is a <strong>prototype parallel twin Indian<\/strong> that was brought to Indianapolis for the <strong>1947 Indy 500<\/strong>. <strong>Otto Linton<\/strong> was there as part of the Red Byron (Pauley-Vogt) team.\u00a0The parallel twin did not go into production for at least a year after the race. Indian had all the drivers sign the tank. It is interesting that <strong>Floyd Clymer<\/strong> signed the tank next to the seat. Although Floyd is known for his books and his Indy 500 reports, he was a Motorcycle dealer and had a long relationship with Indian (he tried to keep the Indian name going through the 1960\u2019s with imported bikes).<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, Floyd may have brought the bike there himself. In any case the production bike (<strong>1949 Indian Scout 249 &#8211; 440cc<\/strong>) was not very good and did not sell well and Indian stopped production by 1953\u2026.no one seems to know what happened to this bike \/ tank.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-284 \" title=\"indian00001\" src=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/indian00001.jpg\" alt=\"Prototype Indian parallel Twin Signed at the 1947 Indy 500\" width=\"620\" height=\"655\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prototype Indian parallel Twin Signed at the 1947 Indy 500<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-285\" title=\"Indian 249 scout\" src=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Indian-241-scout.jpg\" alt=\"Indian 249 Scout Parallel Twin\" width=\"468\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Indian-241-scout.jpg 468w, https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Indian-241-scout-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Indian-241-scout-297x380.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian 249 Scout Parallel Twin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bike is a prototype parallel twin Indian that was brought to Indianapolis for the 1947 Indy 500. Otto Linton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorcycle","tag-indian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}