License plate

[Paul Woelbing]

I'm in the US and came across this listing. I don't know if it might be of interest to anybody but there's a license plate listed as being from a Vincent.

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[Simon Dinsdale]

Not got any record of registration FBO 782 in the Vincent Machine database.
FBO is a registration issued by Cardiff council in 1950.

Simon

 

[Simon Dinsdale]

After some enquiries I found out that FBO 782 is a series C Rapide and the bike still exists in UK. So how the registration plates ended up in Texas I don't know.

Simon

 

[Paul Woelbing]

When I noticed the listing I didn’t know if it was correct but I thought if I owned the bike this is the sort of thing I’d be happy to find. Is it puddings to notify the current owner about the auction?

 

[Paul Woelbing]

When I noticed the listing I didn’t know if it was correct but I thought if I owned the bike this is the sort of thing I’d be happy to find. Is it puddings to notify the current owner about the auction?

Possible. Darn autocorrect

 

[timetraveller]

The world of Vincents is a strange one. A week or so I got an email from one of our Canada based friends with the photograph of the front of a Vincent with the question "did the number plate mean anything to me? Indeed it did. It was the number of the first Vincent I ever owned back in about 1957. I looked out some photographs to ensure that my memory was not failing me and sure enough there was a picture of a fresh faced young chap sat on the bike at my place of work. I sent a copy of the picture to our Canada based friend who then informed me that it was no longer a Shadow but was now a Comet. ??? It turns out that sometime in the intervening 64 years someone has had a massive blow up and destroyed the original Shadow engine. For your amusement I will attach a photo of me on the bike as none of you have ever seen me before.

 

[Paul Woelbing]

The world of Vincents is a strange one. A week or so I got an email from one of our Canada based friends with the photograph of the front of a Vincent with the question "did the number plate mean anything to me? Indeed it did. It was the number of the first Vincent I ever owned back in about 1957. I looked out some photographs to ensure that my memory was not failing me and sure enough there was a picture of a fresh faced young chap sat on the bike at my place of work. I sent a copy of the picture to our Canada based friend who then informed me that it was no longer a Shadow but was now a Comet. ??? It turns out that sometime in the intervening 64 years someone has had a massive blow up and destroyed the original Shadow engine. For your amusement I will attach a photo of me on the bike as none of you have ever seen me before.
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How cool is that!

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

An anonymous Canadian. Sounds suspicious.

 

[Simon Dinsdale]

The world of Vincents is a strange one. A week or so I got an email from one of our Canada based friends with the photograph of the front of a Vincent with the question "did the number plate mean anything to me? Indeed it did. It was the number of the first Vincent I ever owned back in about 1957. I looked out some photographs to ensure that my memory was not failing me and sure enough there was a picture of a fresh faced young chap sat on the bike at my place of work. I sent a copy of the picture to our Canada based friend who then informed me that it was no longer a Shadow but was now a Comet. ??? It turns out that sometime in the intervening 64 years someone has had a massive blow up and destroyed the original Shadow engine. For your amusement I will attach a photo of me on the bike as none of you have ever seen me before.

Norman, what was the registration? It wasn't LDV 854 by any chance?
Simon

 

[timetraveller]

It was LDV 854. Is that in your records?. The chap who communicated was MSVH Y3 but he is not the owner. He had been visiting a friend.