When Jay Leno rode his 1940 Indian Chief with sidecar into an unmarked wire stretched across a parking lot entrance, the outcome could've been far worse. He walked away with broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and two fractured kneecaps, while the historic motorcycle was battered badly enough to be written off.
It looked like a heartbreaking end for one of the most charismatic machines in Leno's collection. Instead, it became the beginning of a restoration that uncovered problems no one knew were hiding beneath the paint.
