God's Teeth!

Depends on how rusty the frame tubes are inside.
If its all rotten, then it is indeed best avoided.

If it had been well stored, a good frame person could repair that - to as good as new ? - for a price.
Its quite common to see featherbeds damaged around the steering head area
- they were heavily gussetted around the steering head area because the factory found early one even mild use can bend them...

Edit. I didn't view all the pics initially.
That is bad....
Bits might serve to repair another frame however, which is all the bids can be for ?
 
The guy selling it is quite honest in his appraisal and the photos tell the story. 9 bids so far, so obviously some people feel they can make use of it, hopefully not patching/bodging it up and selling it on as a good frame.
 
Here in Texas, we refer to something like this as .... "good trot line weight"

Slick
 
At least he's totally honest about it, and the photos back him up.

It's up to the BUYERS.
 
Whats wrong with you guys, a little bit of filler here and there and it be good to go for another 40 years sitting in the back yard, but its getting a bit of intrest so some poeple have some ideas what they are getting themselfs into, maybe they have magic hands that will make it like new or maybe they are all blind and can't see the damage, or or they have to much money and like wasting it on crap, or or or, no I got nothing more, fathersday here today and I am still waitting for breaky in bed its just after 1:30 pm, bugger I think I go and have a beer.

Ashley
 
ashman said:
...some poeple have some ideas what they are getting themselfs into, maybe they have magic hands that will make it like new ...
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I could easily see that if I had proper welding equipment (and skills), a fair stack of proper grade pipe stock, and time on my hands, it might be well worth my while...
 
Having made a proper jig to manufacture some Domirace frames for a project I would suggest it would be a damn sight cheaper to buy a new frame from Andover Norton or a frame maker such as Terry Mead.........
I note with amusement the latest price people are prepared to pay for what is total scrap.
 
If you can't see that frame is scrap then I'm worried. It's now over £400.00 FFS! I bought a very good wideline frame from Mick Hemmings the other week for £300.00.
 
For 300 pounds you got a good deal from Hemmings.

At 400 pounds this frame is madness and, as it has already been said, a death trap. What you can see is a mess. The rest will be almost rusted out as well
 
As of this moment some idiot is prepared to pay over £400 for a few pounds of scrap 14 gauge cold drawn seamless tube..... Clearly some people have more money than sense.
 
J. M. Leadbeater said:
As of this moment some idiot is prepared to pay over £400 for a few pounds of scrap 14 gauge cold drawn seamless tube..... Clearly some people have more money than sense.
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J.M., you fail to grasp it is vintage Norton scrap, which is clearly worth more than plain scrap. :D

At £400 for 30 pounds of pure vintage Norton scrap, it costs only £15 per pound, one can hardly get a good steak for that.

Slick
 
Forum interaction is so much more fun when you don't use emoticons.
 
But you can eat steak especially real steak from Argentina rather than the tasteless overpriced crap we get from our local butchers / Tesco / Lidle /etc but I am olde enough to remember what real steak tasted like........
I note some idiot paid over £500 for the rusty lump. Olde uncle Ted Bloomfield of Motor Cycle Shop in London always described Norton owners thus.....they wear an old despatch riders coat, a Corker helmet and carry a purse!! Funny thing is that when one presented a bill to a Triumph or BSA owner they simply paid up but a Norton owner would damn nigh collapse in shock!! I miss uncle Ted.
 
It is astonishing that a rusty, bent frame goes for £503.00, I just cannot believe it :!: :shock:

The only useful thing on this is the fact that it has got it’s log book of which the new owner will be able to legally transfer the chassis number onto a new frame so nobody will be any the wiser.
 
Bernhard said:
The only useful thing on this is the fact that it has got it’s log book of which the new owner will be able to legally transfer the chassis number onto a new frame so nobody will be any the wiser.
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That is the greatest likelihood.
 
Bernhard said:
It is astonishing that a rusty, bent frame goes for £503.00, I just cannot believe it :!: :shock:

The only useful thing on this is the fact that it has got it’s log book of which the new owner will be able to legally transfer the chassis number onto a new frame so nobody will be any the wiser.
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Only there isn't a log book. NO V5 it states.
 
Dommie Nator said:
Bernhard said:
It is astonishing that a rusty, bent frame goes for £503.00, I just cannot believe it :!: :shock:
The only useful thing on this is the fact that it has got it’s log book of which the new owner will be able to legally transfer the chassis number onto a new frame so nobody will be any the wiser.
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Only there isn't a log book. NO V5 it states.
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I stand corrected; I must have been referring to another frame. Still, if the whole of the chassis number remains unmolested (=Undrilled) then, the new owner will be able to get an age related logbook –but what a price for a piece of scrap :!:
I keep thinking of that old song;

http://www.songlyrics.com/peter-sellers ... on-lyrics/
 
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