1951 Vincent Black Shadow

the legend

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[1947Chief]

Harley eater .......

[daporkchopexpress]

Proper BRITISH engineering absolute stunner.

[MrSupersimes68]

My dad had a 1949 one he paid £150 + part ex of a francis barnett 250 two stroke back in he thinks 1958 it was running really bad but he was an apprentice engineer at the firm he worked at and the wokforce rebuilt it for him but my mother was freightened to death of it my old man has regretted selling it ever since he still talks about it now 50 yrs later i think that says it al

[trackend]

Greatest bike of all time bar none even the name sounds like a work of art.

[DenisHuaHin]

does anyone remember George Brown, i think from Stevenage had a Vincent 1000 drag bike called Nemo?

[jcadlols]

What I would do for that bike...

[TheSpiritof1969]

@Ptarth

Sorry, lost the middle message for a second time.

At the back of the garage was a Shadow and the guy said he would get rid of it for them. When my pal told the womans daughter its true value the guy was given his money back and told to go away.

They were told various options for selling it at its true value but it never made auction, instead accepted a cash offer from an enthusiast.

The bike was thick with dust and spider webs but no sign of corrosion accept the polished

[TheSpiritof1969]

@Ptarth

Ally mudguards had dulled. he was determined to have it and paid well over the odds in cash to have it.

What a gem for someone who wanted to restore a machine that had never been messed about with! It had under 20k on the clock, just the one owner and all the original manuals and stuff that came with it as new.

My pal had also told them what the split screen Morry was probably worth and they still let him have it for the original asking price.

[TheSpiritof1969]

@Ptarth

A few years ago a pal of mine saw an ad for an ancient Morris Minor but did not keep an appointment to go see it. Instead he went the following afternoon. When he got there he was told it had been sold and paid for and the very nice man had gone to get a trailer to take it away. Out of curiosity he asked if he could take a look anyway.

It had been sitting in the garage for decades since the old girls hubby died decades earlier.

Sitting at the back of the garage was ... continued

[Ptarth]

@TheSpiritof1969

Yes, it's true. The cylinder liner has a flange around the top which protrudes above the top surface of the aluminium cylinder "muff" . There's a corresponding register in the cylinder head. To fit the cylinder head you apply fine grinding paste to the protruding liner flange and coarse grinding paste to the mating (aluminium) surfaces of the head and muff. Then, you grind the head onto the muff/cylinder liner with a rotary motion.

[TheSpiritof1969]

Can any Vincent buffs answer a question. I was told once that the cylinder heads were a surface fit and had no gaskets. Was I having my leg pulled or was it true?

[masmith1960]

Nothng will ever be like a Vincent Black Shadow.