Vincent motorcycles

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Any other veteranls remember the HRM feature on Clem Johnson's Vincent drag bike, "The Barn Job"?
I guess it still exists in LA but will never see the strip again, "too valuable to risk"

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That is how you cut up a Vincent. I think the only stock peices in the motor are the cases and a couple bearings. He made the rest in his barn .

So is it in a museum?

 

As bad*** as those are, when something becomes THAT desireable, it makes it totally UNdesireable to me.

Kinda like, unobtanium would smell like poop if I ever was allowed to get close enough to be able to catch a whiff.

Makes me appreciate my POS $400 honda 900 all the more. Fast AND disposable! Ugly, yes...

 

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Any other veteranls remember the HRM feature on Clem Johnson's Vincent drag bike, "The Barn Job"?
I guess it still exists in LA but will never see the strip again, "too valuable to risk"

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I still have that article.

I saw this one at a car show a few years ago.

 

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Anyone can restore one, but it takes real balls to chop one up!!!!

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thats like kicking a hole in a 'pic***o' and then calling yourself an artist.

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**** that chop whatever you want. Thats like telling my man Jeff Decker that he ****ed up chopping his Crocker. If done right it could clean up the lines of an already beutiful bike. For example Jeffs Crocker. **** the purists..

 

we lost a large chunk of British motorcycle history a year or so ago when the mational motorcycle museum went up in flames
But nero and super nero survived two very fast drag vincents
i have a 55 matchless once had a ride on a comet thought it was very over rated as it was heavy and slow for a 500

now my matchless is even heavier and slower but it never was a performace bike


UKAde

 

A Vincent chopper would be such a waste. Vincents were meant for speed and cornering. It would be like chopping a Crocker. I actually think I would be inclined to kick the *** of anyone that did anything to either one, that didn't improve the performance. They were art.

 

Crockers are a little different, they were hot rods to start with, never went for the BMW-style fast touring market. Probably no two Crockers were alike, I bet most of their customers wanted a "hot rod bobber"
You guitar pickers out there will dig to know that Crockers chief engineer was Paul Bigsby.
I think chopping a Crocker is right in the spirit of WWII hot rodding, but chopping almost any British bike makes it less efficient...
like adding air conditioning and a white fur interior to a clean lakes roadster

 

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Anyone can restore one, but it takes real balls to chop one up!!!!

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thats like kicking a hole in a 'pic***o' and then calling yourself an artist.

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**** that chop whatever you want. **** the purists..

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hey.. anybody can do whatever they want with there own property.
but, just because someone can cut and weld something dos'nt make them an artist.

theres no shortage of badly done customs.

 

Anybody know anything about the new supposed "Vincents"? What are their engine based off of? Looks like a V-twin with a cylinder and head design kinda based off Hinckley Trump triples.....

 

My Father in Law is reported to have a few squirled away..

He used to race brit bikes on the dry lakes and my wife knows he had a couple for sure but might have sold them.
He's also pretty shrewd so I'm betting he still has them stored somewhere.

He's just enough of a jerk for it to be true also.

 

The new ones are nothing more then Honda RC50 motors. Kinda weak to take a Brit bike name and slap something like that in it but... oh well who am I to judge.

 

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like adding air conditioning and a white fur interior to a clean lakes roadster

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Oh, jeez. I'd better change my game plan then ...

 

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My Father in Law is reported to have a few squirled away
He's just enough of a jerk for it to be true also.

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It may be time to do some *** licking........oh dearest father in law

 

Talk about a slap in the face. The Jap bikes killed the Brit market and now they wear their names. I think I might buy a whole slew of PTCruisers and slap Auburn on em. Anybody wanna be first in-line to get one? Come on, you could own an Auburn for only 55,000 bucks. Its a steal.....

Dirty F@#*(^&.......

 

I would Limey but he and my wife are "estranged" (ie; they want to kill each other if they get locked in a room) plus he is known to have a collection of simi-legal fire-arms.

 

Probably the maddest Vincent ever built was this ex Reg Deardon supercharged Black Lightning, Deardon took delivery in 1949 but later returned it to Stevenage to have the custom built Shorrock supercharger fitted, Philip Vincent oversaw the design & construction.
Never actually dyno tested but running on alchohol was estimated 130bhp at 6800revs, it was going to be run on the German autobahn & there were roumors that Vincent was planning to take it to Utah in streamlined form.
Sorry don't have any other info regarding performance but its now in Austin Texas owned by a lawyer Herb Harris who paid £55.000 (yes pounds) in 1987.

 

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Almost forgot to mention Herb Harris also owns the 1948 Rollie Free 'bathing trunks' record bike too!

 

CHOP CHOP CHOP!!!!!!!!!


That Crocker is the Shizzit! Fo shizzile hizzle!

Like someone said ealier, if its yours do what you like. People need to stop worring about being "excepted" and make themselves happy. Like I said before, if I ever win the lottery(like that will ever happen)I'm going to try and buy one of the remaining 48 Tuckers and you will see a KUSTOM, RAT RODZZZZZ, LOWBROW, BEATNIK, TIKI, ROCKABILLY, PHSYCHOBILLY, LEAD SLEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

 

Heres a link to some Vincent links. There aren't many out there.
Vincent links!!!!!

 

For sale in Dallas......

Black Shadow

 

Does anyone have any pictures or know anything about Joe Simpson who set records at Bonneville on a Vincent? In the mid 50's??

Sam.

 

I just got confirmation from my wife that her dad sold his Vincents a while back.

I guess a guy had been bugging him to sell one of them for like 20 years and finally wore him down.

From what she hears, he didn't get what they're worth for them either.

She tells me he had more than 2 over time too.

 

There are some things you just don't do...chopping a vincent is one of them. i'm no purist but i know when something is better left alone. that's like turning a Bugatti into lowrider just cause you can

 

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I just got confirmation from my wife that her dad sold his Vincents a while back.

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so i guess he's got nothing going for him now then!! who needs a father inlaw anyway

 

I like Vinnies, but there's a number of other bikes that I think are way cooler for the coin.

Man, I'd beg, plead, steal, and cajole for a Crocker. Someday...someday.

 

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I like Vinnies, but there's a number of other bikes that I think are way cooler for the coin.

Man, I'd beg, plead, steal, and cajole for a Crocker. Someday...someday.

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Heres some history on them....

From guitars to bikes.

History of the Crocker.

Crocker Motorcycle Co.

 

Sweet.....