This 1937 Indian Junior Scout is a rare and fully restored machine, as well as Indian’s smallest V-twin, a light and sporty model. Indian added a small-capacity V-twin to its range in 1920, the 37 CI (600cc) Scout, which joined the Powerplus (61 CI/1000cc). It wasn’t until 1927 that the full 45 CI (750cc) Scout appeared, and the following year, 1928, witnessed the debut of the immortal 101 Scout. The 101 was designed by Charles B. Franklin, an Irish road-racer and Indian dealer from the earliest days of the factory, who led Indian to its greatest foreign victory in 1911, when the team of riders (including Franklin) made a 1-2-3 victory in the Isle of Man TT. The 101 Scout had a totally new 750cc side-valve engine in a full-cradle, longer-wheelbase frame and was a huge seller. Indian, common with the rest of the motorcycle industry and the country, hit hard times with the great Wall Street crash of 1929 and nearly went bankrupt. The DuPont family had considerable investments in Indian, being long-time fans and riders of the marque; in 1930, they purchased the firm and set about revising the model line to improve sales. The DuPonts hoped less-expensive models would sell, and in 1932, a smaller Scout was introduced, the Scout Pony. It featured a 30.5 CI (500cc) side-valve V-twin motor in the frame, forks and sheet metal of the single-cylinder 350cc Prince model, and it used the single’s clutch and gearbox too. The Scout Pony had great lines, with a compact look from the small V-twin motor stuffed in the even smaller chassis, and it was priced at $225, which made it the cheapest American V-twin on the market. It came complete with footboards and a foot clutch, although one could order a “sports” version with footrests and a hand clutch—”English style.” For an extra $5, one could order any color combination from the DuPont color deck, in common with the rest of the model range. Indian lured buyers with a low price; “Now you can have the machine you’ve been waiting for—a real twin-cylinder machine at the lowest price in American history—and it’s an Indian, of course!” By 1935, the name for this model was changed to the Junior Scout, and finally to the Thirty-Fifty, which lasted through 1941. This 1937 Indian Junior Scout has been comprehensively restored by Indian specialists to fully correct specifications in 2022. It’s a matching-numbers machine and looks simply superb. NO RESERVE S100 1937 INDIAN JUNIOR SCOUT
