Ah ok, I'll post some more pics for you of it. I would have had to keep the Daytona Manx, it must be a very rare bike. To be honest I would struggle to part with any of them
I look farward to seeing some more pics as you progress.
Like I said, my mate's owned the bike since about 1959 when he was 18, it was rough and had been raced. I checked with the NOC records and the bike was delivered to a bike shop in Worcester, England in May 1950. It is a genuine Clubman as stated on the factory records, but as my mate was 18 things got changed and thrown away. He told me the original bolt through tank was dented and looked rough so he throw it away :cry: he then had a blue fibreglass tank and fairing on it during the 60's which looked more modern at the time. He said the previous owner had tried to make it look like a Manx so he was changing it back :cry: What he didn't realise was his bike was meant to look like that. Admittedly, some of the alterations on the bike when he got it, were owner done and not factory. It had a swept back exhaust and a large air scoop on the front brake ( I have both of them in my shed to save them being thrown away) My mate is no mechanic, he just rides them and in the 80's he wanted to restore it and used some plunger ES2 parts to do it. When he'd done it, he'd done it to road spec and not Clubman. Hence the chrome road spec tank. 1950 was the year there was a lack nickel or something needed to plate chrome, so less chrome on these Norton's. Hence the wheels have always been silver not chrome and it should have a silver tank. He decided he didn't like it in road trim and put the drop bars etc back on. The seat is what has always been on the bike from when he bought it. He had it recovered and put it back on. He tried a sprung seat and didn't like it as the one on the bike is more comfortable with the turn up at the back. It has the correct very rare footrests as I showed you before, and original rev counted housing for the clock to sit in. I thought this was just the clock mounted on a bracket, but it is fully enclosed. Ally head and barrels as fitted to the Clubman and not the road version (although I did find out that exported Inter's, mainly to USA were given the ally head and barrels instead of cast Iron) The 21" front wheel has an unusual vented disc around the wheel, which has been laced in when the wheel was built. I guessing this was done by the previous owner and not a factory item. A plain SLS brake plate is in place of the scooped one now.
When he was going to sell it to me, I went round and got the bike started, as it hadn't run for over 5 years. It sounded lovely as he's cut the silencer open and taken out the baffles, then welded it back together
Although the external valves do clatter, especially with the ally head and barrels. I doubt he will get it back on the road but he can't part with it. He has a modern Jap bike to thrash around on but loves his Norton
