Usually I consider such efforts to be a waste of time, but Indian did a good job of capturing the look of the old engines without going too far with it. Indian went a step further with engine design it designed the rocker boxes to emulate the cooling fins on the old flathead engine, and kept the pushrod tubes separate and parallel with each other, another flattie feature. The 1,811 cc “Thunder Stroke” 111 from Indian is a bit bigger than the Twin-Cam 103 at 1,687.8 cc, and it cranks out a whopping 119.2 pound-feet of torque at three grand, enough more than the Twin-Cam that you can feel it in your heinie-dyno.
Far from a “Heritage” clone, the “Chief Vintage” reaches deep into its own history for the overall style – and wound up at nearly the same place in history as did H-D with the FLSTC! Low seat, skirted fenders and saddlebag design takes us back to the '50s, and the windshield and pimp lights connect to the custom culture prevalent in same.
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