If so I should get it sold at a classic auction. One went for £240,000 
at auction. Not bad since even Vincent admitted it was not a success. 
The clutch could not handle the power and if you fixed that the gearbox 
tended to give up (according to an approved history of Vincent). Then of 
course it was not known as the plumbers nightmare for nothing. 

 Ken Young

In message , 
kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk writes
> If so I should get it sold at a classic auction. One went for £240,000
>at auction. Not bad since even Vincent admitted it was not a success.
>The clutch could not handle the power and if you fixed that the gearbox
>tended to give up (according to an approved history of Vincent). Then of
>course it was not known as the plumbers nightmare for nothing.
>


£214,800 actually, still far too fuggin much.

I'll never forgive my Dad for flogging his Comet, it had MY name on it 
ffs!

-- 
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CB72
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"mike. buckley"  wrote:


>I'll never forgive my Dad for flogging his Comet, it had MY name on it 
>ffs!

So your IRL name is Vincent Comet?

OK...   
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In message , Fr Jack 
 writes
>"mike. buckley"  wrote:
>
>
>>I'll never forgive my Dad for flogging his Comet, it had MY name on it
>>ffs!
>
>So your IRL name is Vincent Comet?
>
>OK...

I don't think the model names ever appeared on a Vincent, and I'd 
happily change my name in return for a series A Rapide.

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On or around Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:45:08 +0100, "mike. buckley"
 enlightened us thusly:

>In message , Fr Jack 
> writes
>>"mike. buckley"  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'll never forgive my Dad for flogging his Comet, it had MY name on it
>>>ffs!
>>
>>So your IRL name is Vincent Comet?
>>
>>OK...
>
>I don't think the model names ever appeared on a Vincent, and I'd 
>happily change my name in return for a series A Rapide.

I'd rather have a series D though.
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On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:34 +0100, Austin Shackles

 wrote in :

> I'd rather have a series D though.

	I'll aim low.  Anyone got a Brough Superior they'd like to give me?

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On or around Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:22:50 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
 enlightened us thusly:

>On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:34 +0100, Austin Shackles
>
> wrote in :
>
>> I'd rather have a series D though.
>
>	I'll aim low.  Anyone got a Brough Superior they'd like to give me?

Or a Zenith.

Actually, I've always had a sneaking admiration for the 600 sloper Panther.
Proper "one-bang-per-lamp-post" job that is.

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In message , Austin Shackles 
 writes
>On or around Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:22:50 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:34 +0100, Austin Shackles
>>
>> wrote in :
>>
>>> I'd rather have a series D though.
>>
>>      I'll aim low.  Anyone got a Brough Superior they'd like to give me?
>
>Or a Zenith.
>
>Actually, I've always had a sneaking admiration for the 600 sloper Panther.
>Proper "one-bang-per-lamp-post" job that is.
>

Always fancied a Scott, they sound awesome on full chat.



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"mike. buckley"  wrote in message 
news:erU3pxld0OwIFw70@hotmail.com...
>
> Always fancied a Scott, they sound awesome on full chat.
>
>

As did the 3 cylinder Excelsior.  Dunno what they were like to own or ride, 
but the sound effects were magnificent.

Ron Robinson

The message 
from Austin Shackles 
contains these words:
> On or around Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:22:50 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
>  enlightened us thusly:
> >On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:34 +0100, Austin Shackles
> >
> > wrote in :
> >
> >> I'd rather have a series D though.
> >
> >	I'll aim low.  Anyone got a Brough Superior they'd like to give me?

> Or a Zenith.

> Actually, I've always had a sneaking admiration for the 600 sloper Panther.
> Proper "one-bang-per-lamp-post" job that is.

I'd like a H-O Wooller 4, beam engined beastie.

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Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
> The message 
> from Austin Shackles 
> contains these words:
>> On or around Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:22:50 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
>>  enlightened us thusly:
>>> On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:34 +0100, Austin Shackles
>>> 
>>> wrote in :
>>>
>>>> I'd rather have a series D though.
>>>
>>> I'll aim low.  Anyone got a Brough Superior they'd like to give me?
>
>> Or a Zenith.
>
>> Actually, I've always had a sneaking admiration for the 600 sloper
>> Panther. Proper "one-bang-per-lamp-post" job that is.
>
> I'd like a H-O Wooller 4, beam engined beastie.

Apparently, until some reviewer of the first GL1000 said "first since the 
Wooler", Honda thought they'd produced the first ever H/O four.

I saw a Sunbeam S7 with a Porsche 356 engine at Stafford a few years ago.  I 
imagine the final drive lasted several minutes...

"platypus"  writes:

> Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
>> The message 
>> from Austin Shackles 
>> contains these words:
>>> On or around Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:22:50 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
>>>  enlightened us thusly:
>>>> On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:34 +0100, Austin Shackles
>>>> 
>>>> wrote in :
>>>>
>>>>> I'd rather have a series D though.
>>>>
>>>> I'll aim low.  Anyone got a Brough Superior they'd like to give me?
>>
>>> Or a Zenith.
>>
>>> Actually, I've always had a sneaking admiration for the 600 sloper
>>> Panther. Proper "one-bang-per-lamp-post" job that is.
>>
>> I'd like a H-O Wooller 4, beam engined beastie.
>
> Apparently, until some reviewer of the first GL1000 said "first since
> the Wooler", Honda thought they'd produced the first ever H/O four.

Bad research then - Zündapp built a H/O 4 before WWII (the K
800). Brutally expensive when new and thus not exactly a resounding
success.

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platypus  wrote:

> I saw a Sunbeam S7 with a Porsche 356 engine at Stafford a few years ago.  I
> imagine the final drive lasted several minutes...

Here's a pic of it http://tinyurl.com/6ay3rf
-- 
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So few recipes...

robraitxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk (Rob) wrote:


>Here's a pic of it http://tinyurl.com/6ay3rf

Private page... 
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Fr Jack  wrote:

> robraitxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk (Rob) wrote:
> 
> 
> >Here's a pic of it http://tinyurl.com/6ay3rf
> 
> Private page... 

Hmmm, shouldn't be.

Try this URL http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/53014364_1b44913148_o.jpg
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So few recipes...

On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:09:34 GMT, "platypus"
 wrote:

>I saw a Sunbeam S7 with a Porsche 356 engine at Stafford a few years ago.  I 
>imagine the final drive lasted several minutes...

Given that that's about as long as they were supposed to last with the
blistering, tyre shredding original lump, I'm surprised it would be
that long, TBH.

Very attractive bikes though; a former girlfriend's brother owned an
S8 (I think it was a bit of a hybrid, actually). Final drive was OK
but it lunched its dynamo instead, so I never saw it running.

-- 
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The message <yDlwk.53785$E41.24241@text.news.virginmedia.com>
from "platypus"  contains these words:
> Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
> > The message 
> > from Austin Shackles 
> > contains these words:
> >> On or around Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:22:50 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
> >>  enlightened us thusly:
> >>> On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:34 +0100, Austin Shackles
> >>> 
> >>> wrote in :
> >>>
> >>>> I'd rather have a series D though.
> >>>
> >>> I'll aim low.  Anyone got a Brough Superior they'd like to give me?
> >
> >> Or a Zenith.
> >
> >> Actually, I've always had a sneaking admiration for the 600 sloper
> >> Panther. Proper "one-bang-per-lamp-post" job that is.
> >
> > I'd like a H-O Wooller 4, beam engined beastie.

> Apparently, until some reviewer of the first GL1000 said "first since the 
> Wooler", Honda thought they'd produced the first ever H/O four.

> I saw a Sunbeam S7 with a Porsche 356 engine at Stafford a few years
> ago.  I 
> imagine the final drive lasted several minutes...

Drag Waye had a HO4 Volkswagen engine, and someone in the '60s put a VW
engine in a slightly lengthened Dragonfly frame.

TAAAW, there's a 'Doublefly', though this was only recently cannibalised.

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/slidecar/doublefly.jpg

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, mike. buckley 
 typed
>In message , Austin 
>Shackles  writes
>>On or around Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:22:50 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
>> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>>On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:34 +0100, Austin Shackles
>>>
>>> wrote in :
>>>
>>>> I'd rather have a series D though.
>>>
>>>      I'll aim low.  Anyone got a Brough Superior they'd like to give me?
>>
>>Or a Zenith.
>>
>>Actually, I've always had a sneaking admiration for the 600 sloper Panther.
>>Proper "one-bang-per-lamp-post" job that is.
>>
>
>Always fancied a Scott, they sound awesome on full chat.

Me, I've always had a yen for a Douglas Dragonfly.

Never ridden one. Never really looked at one close-up'n'personal.

But always wanted one.

Odd coves, brains.

-- 
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

My position was (and, to be honest, largely remains) one of complete ambiguity.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Rusty Hinge 2
 saying something like:

>TAAAW, there's a 'Doublefly', though this was only recently cannibalised.
>
>http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/slidecar/doublefly.jpg

Gloriously, Britishly, mad.

On the 1300cc flat four engine of the type fitted to Porsche 356
Speedster, but fitted to a Sunbeam, you may like to look at this page

http://www.onthebeam.co.uk/Specials.html

(PS. To be fair on this motorcycle there is not a lot of Sunbeam left
to be able to call it a Sunbeam)

Though it's been around a long time, and still on same rear drive!

The rear drive 'weak point' is made up by Sunbeam owners trying to
keep all the Sunbeams to themselves!

Mike


Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember Rusty Hinge 2
>  saying something like:
>
> >TAAAW, there's a 'Doublefly', though this was only recently cannibalised.
> >
> >http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/slidecar/doublefly.jpg
>
> Gloriously, Britishly, mad.

In message 
, 
Rotor  writes
>On the 1300cc flat four engine of the type fitted to Porsche 356
[snip]

Post at the bottom newby.
-- 
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Rob wrote:
> Fr Jack  wrote:
> 
>> robraitxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk (Rob) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Here's a pic of it http://tinyurl.com/6ay3rf
>> 
>> Private page...
> 
> Hmmm, shouldn't be.
> 
> Try this URL
> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/53014364_1b44913148_o.jpg 

That's the badger.

The message <4vL3oJtP$xwIJAH0@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>
from Wicked Uncle Nigel  contains these words:

> Me, I've always had a yen for a Douglas Dragonfly.

I know where there's one for sale...

> Never ridden one. Never really looked at one close-up'n'personal.

Nice handling bike, but *MUCH* better if you replace the Earles forks
with the Radiadraulic short leading link ones from the T35 Mk series.

However, it reduces the turning-circle somewhat.

> But always wanted one.

Well, send us an emu and I'll give you an e-addy.

> Odd coves, brains.

Ar.

Now, I'd like an Endeavour, or any of the Mk series, especially a 'Plus'.

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The message <KbHAu6ECp+wIFwav@nospam.osvif.demon.co.uk>
from Tim  contains these words:

> In message 
> , 
> Rotor  writes
> >On the 1300cc flat four engine of the type fitted to Porsche 356
> [snip]

> Post at the bottom newby.

Did he have anything worthwhile to say? googlegroup posters (except
honourable exceptions) drop into my idiot bin.

(i.e. - do I make an exception for him?)

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Rusty Hinge 2 
 typed
>The message <4vL3oJtP$xwIJAH0@rcav8r.demon.co.uk>
>from Wicked Uncle Nigel  contains these words:
>
>> Me, I've always had a yen for a Douglas Dragonfly.
>
>I know where there's one for sale...
>
>> Never ridden one. Never really looked at one close-up'n'personal.
>
>Nice handling bike, but *MUCH* better if you replace the Earles forks
>with the Radiadraulic short leading link ones from the T35 Mk series.
>
>However, it reduces the turning-circle somewhat.
>
>> But always wanted one.
>
>Well, send us an emu and I'll give you an e-addy.

Hmm... I really shouldn't be buying bikes at present.

No. No, I'll let this one stay as a pipe-dream.

Thanks, thobut.

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My position was (and, to be honest, largely remains) one of complete ambiguity.

Rob wrote:
> platypus  wrote:
> 
>> I saw a Sunbeam S7 with a Porsche 356 engine at Stafford a few years ago.  I
>> imagine the final drive lasted several minutes...
> 
> Here's a pic of it http://tinyurl.com/6ay3rf

Zonealarm still not liking dear old tinyurl.

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