Dozens of motorcycles line a long room inside the Pierce Harley-Davidson dealership.

Wayne Pierce, who started the dealership at 969 Peace Road, maintains the Barb City Motorcycle Museum. He owns 125 bikes for display, mostly Harleys and a few Triumphs, plus numerous other pieces of memorabilia including jackets, posters, photographs and toys.

-One 1933 motorcycle even was used in 1987’s “The Untouchables,” starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery.

Pierce started the collection in 1942, 15 years before he became a dealer in 1957. His oldest motorcycle is a 1929 Model B that originally cost $235.

“The bikes was a lot cheaper them days,” Pierce said.

Pierce completely restored about 20 of the bikes, but many of them are originals. Pierce said untouched bikes have more value, but he could not say how much his collection is worth.

A number of the bikes are noteworthy. Pierce keeps two motorcycles from World War II. He said Harley-Davidson sold 188,000 such bikes to the armed forces for the war. He has a motorcycle from the first year Harley installed electric starters and one from 1957 that’s the 10th of its kind ever made. Another bike, a 1998 95th Anniversary model, is number four of only 3,000 produced.

Pierce hasn’t just kept an extensive collection for show. He competed in races for about 20 years and has won about 250 trophies.

He won a national championship in his sidecar class in 1956 and another one in 1958. The races each were 500 miles and took two days to complete. Pierce had to beat more than 600 contestants.

-Five calendars feature Pierce’s bikes, including “America’s Classic 2001,” which contains photographs of 11 of them.

People from all over the world have visited the Barb City Motorcycle Museum, including people from such far-reaching locations as New Zealand and South Africa.

More than 17,000 people have signed the museum’s visitor book. The museum is open every day during the business hours for the dealership.

“I usually just set up a chair and let people look,” Pierce said. “I’ve had a lot of fun doing this. I didn’t do it for the money because I kept the bikes instead of selling them.”

For more information on the museum, call Pierce Harley-Davidson at 756-4558.