^What year is your dad's Vulcan 1500? Mine is a 1998. Ironically, I had the dealer chase down one of the last 2 1998s in Washington for me in Jan 99, as I didn't care for the colors on the 99 (which turned out to be the last year they made the plain ol' 1500, but they still kept the Nomad, Classic, and....damn, one other going, later bumping them from something like 1470cc to 1551 or so).
I say ironically, because when I went down in the accident in June of 2002 and the insurance company wanted to total it, I saved it by going with a single color paint, my choice (metallic grape). 99 could have done that, too. Didn't want the 97 the dealer was begging me to take, as they had reported gear problems.
BTW, for the 98, paid $7999 new. Try finding any cruiser that size now for four figures, new. That's one reason I didn't want it totaled. Plus, I can ride that thing all day long and not be sore.
