Wednesday, February 1, 2012
An Unknown AEE catalog
I recently found this catalog and uncovered a mystery. First you will note the date on the catalog 1968/1969. The cover is similar to the first AEE catalog but Rose and Boomer are missing from the picture with the Corvair Trike. Inside the front cover is a glued in discount schedule. The schedule applies certain discounts to certain letters...like 10% for A, 15% for B and so on. The last few pages are a price list showing each part number and price and it's respective discount letter. Obviously this was a catalog given to dealers that wanted to sell AEE parts. Now the most interesting thing....the cover says AEE Cycles not Choppers!. Never have I seen that on anything from AEE. A real oddity and a bit of a mystery. I am going to try to chase down more info on this one.
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Since a couple of years I'm digging in chopper's history. The catalog mentioned above is not "unknow". It is very first AEE catalog - aviable from 1st of July 1968 (then AEE was still "Cycle" not "Choppers" yet).
ReplyDeleteI said unknown as even Dave Brackett who was there at the founding of AEE had never seen it before, nor had I.
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