Dunstall Fairing for 35 year garage find Commando

The seller included a Dunstall Fairing with the bike (35 year garage find). He bought the fairing in 1975, dropped and cracked it on the way home and never put it on the bike. There is a 1 inch crack in the clear windshield part. I am not going to put this on my Commando and will list it on EBAY. My questions are
1. Do I have all the pieces needed to install ?
2. Is this Norton Commando specific? I know the color matches my red Commando? or is it for Triumph and BSA also.
3 Would the correct listing be 1975 original Dunstall fairing for Norton Commando?

I put it on youtube as Norton Commando Dunstall fairing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_boSsvv2 ... ture=g-upl

Rick

Video is private, can't see it.

...and if anyone is interested in this and needs a new windshield, try here.
http://www.bikescreen.com/proddetail.as ... TNorton850

Bill G

Now it is public.thanks
Rick

I have the exact same fairing for my other bike and the windshield is cracked too.
I'm debating if I want to put it back to cafe' when I am done restoring it.
Just remember that when you install the bracket that bolts to the neck of the frame, I drew a blank on what it's called, that it will totally destroy the ID plate if care is not taken to protect it. When I bought mine it was destroyed by the PO who installed it.
Any parts you are missing can probably be found at you hardware store but it looks mostly there.

Thanx Bill for the link to the screen.

I'll take the tire iron!

I'm wondering if this isn't one of the fairings Dunstall sold for Japanese bikes. All the Dunstall fairings I've seen for Commandos kept the instruments in their normal location, not integrated into the fairing. Also, the ones Dunstall sold for Commandos in 1974 or so had a rectangular recess for the headlight, not the smooth round one shown on your fairing. The mounting brackets also don't look like the ones I've seen for Commandos. On the other hand, Dunstall could have made some later fairings for the Commando that I've never seen, so I really can't say for sure. I don't have any pictures of the Dunstall parts for Hondas and such, but I do remember seeing them in his catalogs back in the day.

Ken

I thought Dunstalls had a dash.

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Mine is just like his shown and uses the stock head light assy.
Mine also only has holes for the clocks and not the what I am assuming is for an amp or oil gauge.
Nice call on the tire iron. I still have mine that came with the bike which is exactly like that one.

Interesting. Must just be my faulty memory again. These are the fairings I was remembering, and it looks like some of them do have mounts for the instruments, and some of them don't. None of them appear to match yours, but it's clear that Dunstall supplied a variety of fairing designs over the years.







Ken

Hey Swoosh, How'd you get my photo? I'll have my lawyer call your law....blab blab blab... just kidding. and swoosh, did you see those steering stops in the video? (I knew I had a set somewhere).

So I can add, the blue bike is mine and I mounted an oil pressure guage where there was that indent cast into the mould between the tach and speedo. Unfortunately I can't for sure confirm 100% it's dunstall because I bought the fairing in around 1972 from a friend who said it was a Dunstall. He had a bunch of other Dunstall bits on his bike too. He would have bought it new in 71 or 72. I always thought it was a Dunstall original as did all my buddies who were into it at the time. As I recall the squarish stuff came out in 73 - 74. I'll try to check some old catalogs when I get home. The 2 circular plates sandwich the head lamp lens and then it is snugged up to the fairing from the inside. The rubber goes against the steering head and the U-bolt goes around the steering neck and into the biggest piece there which then supports the dash of the fairing from below and the lower section of the fairing above the fender. I added an aluminum plate on mine because the dash cracked after a wipeout. The 2 double bend straps bolt to the front tank studs and extend to the right and left sides to support the long side wings of the fairing. As mentioned the 2 bolts with the 1/4" rod welded to the heads are steering stops that bolt to the holes in the lower triple clamp so the rod butts up to the steering stop on the frame neck there by further reducing the amount of steering radius available. I think it's complete.

Ooops, sorry Ken and other experts. I was just thinking and realized the blue bike was one of the later Nortons I had when I was in Vancouver. It could very well have been 74, 75 or even 76 that I bought that fairing so it could have been made after the squarish style as you suggested Ken. Those years are a little foggy in my memory.

I put the fairing on EBAY. I am suprised by the interest and astonished by the price.
Rick

Rick Cook said:

I put the fairing on EBAY. I am suprised by the interest and astonished by the price.
Rick

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Link?

Dis it?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dunstall-Fairin ... 500wt_1303

A lot of people cut out the dash to improve the turning radius. It was only a tiny bit better but it helped.

The heck with the fairing! Does that bike have the big valve Dunstall head?

Back in the day the Dunstall big valve head made a huge difference the out put of my 810. The performance increase was noticeably greater than the combined 810 kit & full race cam alone.

Bruce MacGregor

lcrken said:

Interesting. Must just be my faulty memory again. These are the fairings I was remembering, and it looks like some of them do have mounts for the instruments, and some of them don't. None of them appear to match yours, but it's clear that Dunstall supplied a variety of fairing designs over the years.

Ken

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I have one of those.

Unless I am very much mistaken Dunstall fairing were made by Reg Curley now
Curley Specialised moulding. HTH