The Norton Girl

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phil yates

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I read a story some years back, about an English Norton man who set about tracking down the original
Norton Girl in the Commando magazine ads. You may remember she was replaced by a second one, a
gorgeous blonde who I actually found more appealing than the first. Apparently the original one fell
pregnant and they replaced her. Just can't have Norton Girls getting pregnant can we? That's just not on!!
There is one shot of the blonde astride a new 850 which I will dig out sometime. If you look at the photo, you
will see her leg is about 1.5 times longer than possible, unless they stretched her! She must have been wearing
VERY long heeled boots under her pink flared pants.

So our intrepid searcher set off on his mission, tracing employment records etc until he finally tracked the
Norton Girl living somewhere in Europe (I think). He knocked on the door and a middle aged woman opened
it, hair in curlers and fag hanging out of her mouth. In shock, he screamed and ran for his life!

I told this story to Jenny and she said, what is it with you male idiots?
Did he expect to find her still as a drop dead gorgeous 21 year old??
Well I guess not, sadly.
It is a tragedy of life that time and reality destroys all our most vivid memories.

What I can't understand is why Jenny still looks like a drop dead gorgeous 21 year old?
All my friends think the same. Yet she is not much younger than me!!

Someone else might have a better recollection of the Norton Girl search than me, or
even the original article.

And an aside, how do I post pics in here? I am dumb dumb dumb with computers, and
I refuse to read instructions, if I can find them!

Took me years to learn how to get the gas filler cap off my Norton. I used to ask the
station attendant to do it. Just after I learnt, they swapped to a key operated version.
That screwed with my head something terrible :)
 
phil yates said:
And an aside, how do I post pics in here? I am dumb dumb dumb with computers, and
I refuse to read instructions, if I can find them!
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I could've directed you to the "Tech. Info. & How To Post Photos" sticky topic (near the top of the main "Norton Commando Classic" section) as that contains instructions on how to do it using "Photobucket" -but as you won't read instructions-there's obviously no point me doing so, :cry: and you probably aren't reading this anyway.

(Why am I typing this?). :roll:



the-norton-girls-t5393.html
 
Having the perfect Norton and the perfect woman must be huge compensation for your inability to read instructions.
Perhaps someone will make a youtube video explaining how to post pics and then your life will be perfect times three!
:P
 
This the one? Guess you got to use your imagination..... :shock:

The Norton Girl
 
L.A.B. said:
phil yates said:
And an aside, how do I post pics in here? I am dumb dumb dumb with computers, and
I refuse to read instructions, if I can find them!
Click to expand...

I could've directed you to the "Tech. Info. & How To Post Photos" sticky topic (near the top of the main "Norton Commando Classic" section) as that contains instructions on how to do it using "Photobucket" -but as you won't read instructions-there's obviously no point me doing so, :cry: and you probably aren't reading this anyway.

(Why am I typing this?). :roll:



the-norton-girls-t5393.html
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I am reading this. Rather, I have read this.
What is photo bucket?

I saw that but it meant nothing to me.
Maybe I should have said "can't" read instructions.
I hold a deep suspicion of all instructions.
They are nearly never right. Not for me. :)
 
tomspro said:
Having the perfect Norton and the perfect woman must be huge compensation for your inability to read instructions.
Perhaps someone will make a youtube video explaining how to post pics and then your life will be perfect times three!
:P
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Tom, you have suggested what I was afraid to ask for.
Just when will the video be available?

Perfect Norton and perfect woman?
You betcha.
I don't wish for anyone to be unhappy with either of theirs.

But it wasn't always that way.
Never had a problem with my Nortons.
But one wife (the only) took me to hell and back!
I lost ten years of my life, and I lost my daughter in the middle of the horrible mess.
So I plan my remaining years will be a lot better. You need a very good woman for that!
I have the best!!
 
One of the "Norton Girls" from the 70s was Vivian Neve, who was an absolute cracker. Very sadly she died in the early 2000s of Multiple Sclerosis. Google "Vivian Neve"
cheers
wakeup
 
My Jenny also defies age, not a wrinkle visible anywhere. Well possibly one ahead of the cinch line, but that's it.
Those ears are all hers, no plastic surgery for my Jenny!

The Norton Girl
 
wakeup said:
One of the "Norton Girls" from the 70s was Vivian Neve, who was an absolute cracker. Very sadly she died in the early 2000s of Multiple Sclerosis. Google "Vivian Neve"
cheers
wakeup
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I didn't know that "wakeup".
That is very sad. I think Vivian may have been the long legged girl I mentioned on the new 850 but I am not sure. Her pants were actually orange, not pink. The ad was headed "SuperPlus"

I don't know how many Norton Girls there actually were, but they were all stunners. All these years later we look back to realise
we were a part of history that has become cult. I don't live in a very big town, but nearly every time I stop, someone wants to talk to me about my bike, or take photos of it.

At first I thought they wanted to take photos of me.
But I was deluded.

Over the hill in the town of Bowral there is a vintage clothes shop. I bought some beautiful French coats in there for Jenny, and I bought myself a 70's leather jacket from London. Jenny berated me all the way home through the helmet intercom for spending so much money on her. But she is worth it.
Money is to be made, spent and made again.
And life is to be lived. Preferrably with a beautiful girl, and a Norton!
 
My Jenny also defies age, not a wrinkle visible anywhere. Well possibly one ahead of the cinch line, but that's it.
Those ears are all hers, no plastic surgery for my Jenny!

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
My Jenny has had no plastic surgery either.
Not a grey hair in her head - doesn't dye it at all.

But she did have her ears cut off.
 
This the one? Guess you got to use your imagination..... :shock:

Is this your mother on the Norton?

It actually looks like my mum.
And the bike is my first Norton.
A Dominator 99.

I took mum for a ride on the back of it one night, I was not even old enough
to hold a license. On the first corner, I leaned hard left.
But the bike would not crank over. Looking back, I saw mum leaning as hard
right as I was leaning left. No wonder dad sold his Triumph Speed Twin whilst
courting mum. He bought an MG TC motorcar instead!!
 
I bought my Dominator 99 three months short of16yrs 9mths old, the age at which you could get your L Plates in New South Wales.
The bike was all white, being an ex English Police bike. Everyday after school I would work on it. I spray painted the tank green. Hand painted the frame black and reupholstered the torn seat with black material. I didn't have any money to do better.

When the BIG day finally arrived I was off and away, never to be seen on a push bike again. I was 17 when I got my first Norton girl Cathy who was 15. It was just after I had my first (and virtually only) major wipe out. I was doing an Agostini around a corner with a near bald front tyre. To my great and shocked surprise I came a cropper. Up until then, I thought the bike and I were invincible. But I survived badly scraped and very sore.

Cathy's parents would not let her on the back of a motorbike (I don't blame them now) so she would tell them we were going for a picnic at the beach. At the bottom of her street I would meet her and we'd go for a day ride out into the country. They were good times before the world got madly regulated. I remember one night taking three of Cathy's girlfriends back to their homes from a party, all together on the back of the Norton. Two on the seat and one on the mud guard. No helmets at all.

Three Norton Girls on the back??
Beat that!!
 
Now I'm thinking I just wasn't quick enough. Failing in my old age.
My one and only Norton girl Jenny had never heard of a Mk III.
The only Nortons she's known all required a hefty kick on the lever
to start and as far as she knew, they all did. When I told her about this one, she immediately named it
"The Norton With Auto Start"

But I should have said simply that it had voice recognition. On her
first ride, when she climbed on the back I should have shouted
"NORTON START" and pressed the button at the same time.

Don't know how long this would have lasted. Norton girls are smart and can be demanding.
On first getting together, first matter Jenny raised was ownership.
All of mine is mine.
And all of yours is mine. Don't argue, or the Norton goes.
I tried for a compromise, half of mine maybe could be mine?
Maybe also the Norton?
But she said no way, I am not running a benevolent society!!

It was better than my divorce, where all of mine was hers plus
countless 100's of thousands of dollars.

Jenny thrust me a form titled Naughty Norton Girl Agreement.
Which I reluctantly signed. So now I don't own anything at all!!

But at least when I go out on wild Norton spending sprees (have just
ordered another Mk III from the States, it is her money, not mine :)
 
But youve never seen the BSA posters ? ? :P

The Norton Girl


Had the Full Colour dealer poster of this , went to the ex her indoors . Probly jelous of that so wished to control it . :?
 
'Apparently the original one fell
pregnant and they replaced her. Just can't have Norton Girls getting pregnant can we? '

All they would have to d o is sit on the seat of any Commando after you guys have had it for a couple of days.
 
Y'know, I happen to have this mag that contains all the Norton Girl adverts; if any of you are interested, I'll contact Cycle World to see if they'd let me post them. I'm probably already in trouble for showing you this:
The Norton Girl
 
acotrel said:
'Apparently the original one fell
pregnant and they replaced her. Just can't have Norton Girls getting pregnant can we? '

All they would have to d o is sit on the seat of any Commando after you guys have had it for a couple of days.
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Apparently that's exactly what happened.
But explicit in her contract was not to.
So they sacked her.
 
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