No, it's not a Black Shadow -- this is a Vincent Black Lighting. Included here because it's sister, the Vincent Black Shadow, was the bike that Hunter Thompson coveted.
Actually, here is a grainy image of the Black Shadow.
This comes from a website for Vincent fans, which features all of HST's writings mentioning the bike. I think that for many years I thought the bike was made up. And yet, here is a guy named Rollie Free, breaking the land-speed record at Bonneville in 1948. He's riding a Black Shadow, and wearing a bathing suit. Seriously. He and ex-wife number 19 would have gotten along like a house afire.
I think this guy was the one who was portrayed in "Worlds fastest Indian" as the cigar smoking and Hawaiian shirt wearing dude. I remember his last name in the movie was Freed or something and he dug motorcycles. Neat photo.
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