Vincent motorcycles

I saw "The Barn Job" run at Lions about a thousand years ago. E.T.s were really inconsistent, but always ran within a couple of miles an hour (fast) at the top end. *****'n.

 

Not in the same league performance-wise, but If I bought another bike it'd be one of these. Still in production and relatively cheap to boot. Plus you can get them with saddlebags to carry your British intelligence do***ents.

 

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...in India

 

My dad told me he had one when he was about 17, and it was a pain in *** to start. One day he couldn't start it and it fell over so he left it there. Somebody got a bargain.

 

Indian Vincent?

 

Indian distributed Vincents for a while- Touring fenders, and ape hangers for the USA market.

 

All this talk of cool vintage bikes and no mention of my personal fave...The Ariel Square Four?

Gotta love twin crankshafts spinning in opposite directions. Here's a '56...

 

Revell Germany has a Vincent Black Shadow 1:12 kit out now. You can get them at Hobby Lobby for 29..95

 

This is a true story .

A few years ago my buddy Brian got a bug up his *** to get a Vincent , so we went down to LA to look at a Rapide that a car restorer that he knew had , turns out that it was owned or painted by Von Dutch ( he was still alive then ), my friend didn't buy it because it had alot of etching in the cases and crazy paint and stuff and he wanted to restore one , but we were given a name and number for a guy named Marty ****erson who lived outside of Paso Robles , right where James Dean died .

We drove out to meet him at his shop. this guy used to race for Vincent in the 50s and worked on them . He had at least 20 bike there , singles and twins and tons of parts.

We came to look at a Rapide , it was parted together and missing a bunch of parts , but most of it could be bought from Marty , it needed lots of work and was over priced.

When we looked around we found a Black Shadow neatly unbolted into two halfs up in the rafters to keep it out of the way.

When we asked about it , we were told it was a customer's bike in for repairs and not for sale. It was covered with dust and hadn't been moved for years . While Marty was distracted we noticed that the owners name was still visable in the registation tube above the liscence plate with an old adress in Las Vegas. We didn't buy the Rapide , but we told him we would be back.

Later after some calling around the owner was found in a retirement home in Vegas, he had forgotten about owning the bike ,as it had been at the repair shop 30 years , and no work had been done . Brian asked if he would sell it , the owner said he would think about it .

Two days later he got the call , the pink slip had been found and he was ready to sell .Two more days later Brian was back from Vegas with the ***le in his name and even some old photos of the owner and the bike in the 50s .

I drove back down to Paso with him to pick it up , Mr ****erson was pissed , I guess he thought it would end up his , he claimed that he was owed money for repairs and storage , we pointed out that it still was not fixed , he offered to do the work , we declined gave him 300 bucks and took the Black Shadow home .

Six months later it was restored , it gets riden all the time .

The guy in Vegas sold this all original 1951 model C Black Shadow for $1000 bucks.

As we all know from all of the little old lady and barn find stories we read here on the HAMB ; The're still out there , you just gotta look harder.

 

Great story!

 

1 1/2 years of lurking I have gathered 1lowdilbert is a ****tard.

 

Cool old bike We saw in Tennesee this weekend.

 

11 year old thread, fellas. Plus, we do not focus on motorcycles (anymore)...see the posting rules/guidelines.