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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 171551" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>It happens that for the past 26 years I've had a 1963 West Coast Rocket Gold Star, but I only discovered it in my garage this past weekend.</p><p> </p><p>Making a long story short, I bought a basket case BSA A10 in 1994 that turned out to be the world's first 1957 Spitfire Scrambler (S/N 101). This was a one-year-only, U.S.-only model made in small numbers and having a Super Rocket engine in Gold Star Cycle parts, i.e. a Rocket Gold Star by another name. A few years later I bought an A10 engine to use as a donor in case it was needed when rebuilding the Spitfire's engine. As an aside, that same seller also had an ASCT gearbox that I bought as well, planning to use it in the Spitfire if I couldn't locate the proper SCT2. I finally found a rare SCT2, used only in 1957 Spitfire Scramblers, a decade later.</p><p></p><p>Nineteen years after I got the ASCT, a 1962 Gold Star Catalina came my way, with an SCT gearbox whose main shaft was very slightly bent, but quite functional. However, it happens that an ASCT is correct for that year, so I installed it five years ago at the same time I changed the sprockets to Clubman gearing for the wide-open spaces of the Southwest.</p><p></p><p>But, I digress from what is itself a digression. The same purchase that had the correct gearbox for my Catalina also included a DA10R donor engine, which I had basically forgotten about until a few days ago. I already knew that DA10R engines were pulled in somewhat random order from the same assembly line for both the Rocket Gold Star and the Super Rocket and, when I remembered I had the engine, I sent the number to the Gold Star Club to see if, against all odds, it might be from a Rocket Gold Star.</p><p></p><p>I learned the next day that my engine was in of a batch of "A10 Rocket Gold Stars" that were sent to the west coast in "Hap Alzina USA spec" in early October 1962. Who says lightning never strikes twice? Or, three times, counting the ASCT along with the Spitfire Scrambler. </p><p></p><p>Amazingly, I've owned a Rocket Gold Star for 26 years without even know it. OK, OK, if you want to get picky, I've owned the <em>engine</em> for a Rocket Gold Star. The donor engine I had bought in case I needed it to help restore the world's first Spitfire Scrambler, itself a Rocket Gold Star by a different name, turns out to be from an actual Rocket Gold Star.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 171551, member: 2806"] It happens that for the past 26 years I've had a 1963 West Coast Rocket Gold Star, but I only discovered it in my garage this past weekend. Making a long story short, I bought a basket case BSA A10 in 1994 that turned out to be the world's first 1957 Spitfire Scrambler (S/N 101). This was a one-year-only, U.S.-only model made in small numbers and having a Super Rocket engine in Gold Star Cycle parts, i.e. a Rocket Gold Star by another name. A few years later I bought an A10 engine to use as a donor in case it was needed when rebuilding the Spitfire's engine. As an aside, that same seller also had an ASCT gearbox that I bought as well, planning to use it in the Spitfire if I couldn't locate the proper SCT2. I finally found a rare SCT2, used only in 1957 Spitfire Scramblers, a decade later. Nineteen years after I got the ASCT, a 1962 Gold Star Catalina came my way, with an SCT gearbox whose main shaft was very slightly bent, but quite functional. However, it happens that an ASCT is correct for that year, so I installed it five years ago at the same time I changed the sprockets to Clubman gearing for the wide-open spaces of the Southwest. But, I digress from what is itself a digression. The same purchase that had the correct gearbox for my Catalina also included a DA10R donor engine, which I had basically forgotten about until a few days ago. I already knew that DA10R engines were pulled in somewhat random order from the same assembly line for both the Rocket Gold Star and the Super Rocket and, when I remembered I had the engine, I sent the number to the Gold Star Club to see if, against all odds, it might be from a Rocket Gold Star. I learned the next day that my engine was in of a batch of "A10 Rocket Gold Stars" that were sent to the west coast in "Hap Alzina USA spec" in early October 1962. Who says lightning never strikes twice? Or, three times, counting the ASCT along with the Spitfire Scrambler. Amazingly, I've owned a Rocket Gold Star for 26 years without even know it. OK, OK, if you want to get picky, I've owned the [I]engine[/I] for a Rocket Gold Star. The donor engine I had bought in case I needed it to help restore the world's first Spitfire Scrambler, itself a Rocket Gold Star by a different name, turns out to be from an actual Rocket Gold Star. [/QUOTE]
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