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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 6713" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p><strong>First Shadow</strong></p><p></p><p>OK, Somer, the <em>prototype</em> Shadow.......was sold on from the works with the number JRO 102. Culver saw it lying at the back of Conway's shop in the mid-eighties, and (by implication in the magazine article) recognised the number,and offered £2300 for it. It was decidedly shabby, and at the time a conkers Vincent might fetch £2000. A few weeks later, he was told "OK".</p><p>I remember in 1974 or so talking to a Glasgow motorcycle dealer, Bill Fleming, who complained that he simply wasn't able to shift "these old bikes" and pointed to two Rapides he had, priced at £250. </p><p>All together now: "if I'd known then what I know now, I'd be wealthy beyond dreams of avarice." But I didn't, and didn't have £250 anyway, so I'm not. At least not in terms of increasingly worthless money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 6713, member: 4034"] [b]First Shadow[/b] OK, Somer, the [I]prototype[/I] Shadow.......was sold on from the works with the number JRO 102. Culver saw it lying at the back of Conway's shop in the mid-eighties, and (by implication in the magazine article) recognised the number,and offered £2300 for it. It was decidedly shabby, and at the time a conkers Vincent might fetch £2000. A few weeks later, he was told "OK". I remember in 1974 or so talking to a Glasgow motorcycle dealer, Bill Fleming, who complained that he simply wasn't able to shift "these old bikes" and pointed to two Rapides he had, priced at £250. All together now: "if I'd known then what I know now, I'd be wealthy beyond dreams of avarice." But I didn't, and didn't have £250 anyway, so I'm not. At least not in terms of increasingly worthless money. [/QUOTE]
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