Wheels Through Time has been hard at work on its ‘39 Rustoration project for some time and it’s getting closer and closer to completion. If you haven’t been following along, the bike is a 1939 Harley-Davidson EL Knucklehead from Indiana that, at one point, was in a fire and was completely disassembled in 1975. Thankfully, miraculously, the parts stayed together all these decades and it’s now coming back to life in Matt Walksler’s shop.
Although he hasn’t gone deep into the history of this bike in the videos so far, Walksler was crystal clear about wanting to keep the exterior patina on this bike in its present condition. Opinions will, of course, vary—but his feeling is that when a bike has lived a life, it makes sense to show it off, not try to hide it behind a better-than-showroom-fresh restoration.
