Fell into a sweet deal on a travel trunk

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Wow, my first week with my 2000 Nomad and I found out a guy I know that used to work for my employer had a Nomad a year or two ago and he still had a travel trunk that he had bought for it. I spotted him delivering to a house across from where I had a stop and we got to talking and he told me about it. Well, today I saw him in his truck while I was in town on my bike and we met up at the loading terminal in the rail yard. He told me that he would be home by 4:30 pm. I had to get my bike registered in VT so I told him I would stop by his house when I got back into the area again. I then drove about 40 miles out to Rutland, VT and registered my Nomad and then came back a different way to Lebanon, NH where he lives. He showed a couple pictures of the Nomad he had with the trunk on it. Wow, what a nice bike! Red and black with gold striping. He got out the travel trunk. It had been painted to match the bike. It wasn't a full-sized type, but it was big enough for me. I offered him $200 and it was mine. We removed my backrest/luggage rack and installed it. Wow, does it look super. The passenger backrest pad looks kind of dorky, but I can take that off and mount the Mustand backrest pad from my Valkyrie. Here is what it looks like mounted on my bike right now.