Motos Anciennes

[RobertArthur]

Another modern classic, summertime riding, not any storm insight.

[Niftyons]

Err… pls delete

whoever built that vinny was tyreless in his persuit of perfection

He was; though, not so choosy about girlfriends.
He told me that the original Miller headlamp
glass alone was worth £100 in the mid 1970s.

[Hotrodder]

[Niftyons]

£100 might be ott but I remember the figure he gave seemed inordinately expensive.
That would be about double our weekly wage in 1975.

[Hotrodder]

That would have been about triple what I was earning.

[Niftyons]

IMG_0772.jpeg

My late uncle was employed for about 15 years driving this sort of thing.

[Hotrodder]

My great grandfather served on one of these in the 20s.

horse drawn fire engine.jpg

[RobertArthur]

@ Hotrodder, about your late uncle. I was a bit surprised, I would have expected this picture.

[Hotrodder]

Your photo is more likely to be my grandfather. He and my grandmother both rode motorcycles before emigrating to USA after the war. Oddly, neither could drive a manual shift car at all. He once had a breakdown and the garage loaned him a car to get home. It was manual and he used only first gear all the way home, several miles.

[Niftyons]

At Robert Arthur Who is that on the motor cycle?