Any 1972 Combat advertisements?

Were there ever any Combat ads? We've all seen the ads for every other kind of bike with the famous Norton Girlies, but try as I might I can't find an ad for the infamous Combat. You'd think that they'd want to push the Combat harder than all the others back in the day- performance! Excitement! Maybe an almost naked girlie? boobie tassles and bikini bottom? Oil scavenging problems would leave her glistening with oil after the motor ran all the oil through the breather.... maybe not a selling point? I digress-
Also, I lost a completely legal and totally planned drag race on a closed track and not a public road this summer to a combat. Some of the combat legends are true! My motor is fresh and tight (3000mi on a total teardown and rebuild)- it was neck and neck till 4th gear, then he just walked away from me...

Disc brake and black barrels should make the Roadster and Interstate Combats during 1972.

L.A.B. said:

Disc brake and black barrels should make the Roadster and Interstate Combats during 1972.

https://www.classicbike.biz/Norton/Brochures/1970/72NortonBrochure.pdf

https://www.classicbike.biz/Norton/A_Link/1970s/72Commando-Ad.pdf

https://www.classicbike.biz/Norton/A_Link/1970s/72Norton-Interstate-Ad.pdf

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I have one or two of these ads saved from Cycle Magazine or picked up at a bike shop back in the 1970s.

thanks for the links LAB! I'd seen some of that stuff before, but don't think I ever looked up the OG brochure before. I still just think it's weird that some of the ads have the words "Interstate!" in 42 point font advertising for what essentially is a different gas tank, but the tarted up motor with the crazy big cam gets a smaller paragraph in the brochure than the very next paragraph about the brakes. I just figured if you went to all the work of making a hot motor, you should get like a full page spread with the words "combat" and like a girlie in fatigues with camo face paint or something. Oh well- Maybe someday I'll build a combat and photoshop an ad with the monster energy girls or something.

The 72 combat production was a piece of Norton history that the company would probably have just as soon forgotten about, pretty models or not

BERT said:

The 72 combat production was a piece of Norton history that the company would probably have just as soon forgotten about, pretty models or not

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True, but most joints don't bury a screwup till after the fact. Seems maybe they never believed in the combat to begin with... !

tompkins said:

I still just think it's weird that some of the ads have the words "Interstate!" in 42 point font advertising for what essentially is a different gas tank, but the tarted up motor with the crazy big cam gets a smaller paragraph in the brochure than the very next paragraph about the brakes. I just figured if you went to all the work of making a hot motor, you should get like a full page spread with the words "combat" and like a girlie in fatigues with camo face paint or something. Oh well- Maybe someday I'll build a combat and photoshop an ad with the monster energy girls or something.

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The focus on the Interstate and the brakes makes a bit more sense when you know that the disk brake came with the Combat engine option, and according to the ad was only available on the Interstate and the Roadster models. Other sources also refer to the Combat option being available on the Fastback and LR models.
Let the bun throwing begin.

Rideability, eh? Nudge nudge, wink wink.