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Whoever buys "Norton" will only buy the trademark, and only deal with the bank owning it. The company is history. Whoever picks up the TM will want nothing to do with the tainted decade of the conman's rule.As Swooshdave says, the 961 has been overtaken years ago by modern emissions and registration rules and the few that were fumbled together in Downington were fiddled through individual approval procedures. They never had a type approval and I doubt they ever passed a noise test unfiddled, i.e. in standard "production" spec. I know how we struggled in 1998 to get the C652 through approvals and that didn't make anything near the mechanical racket the 961 does.Kenny Dreer's financier Curme did his homework and that is why he ended his adventure in the Norton history. He priced the 961 for production IN CHINA at the time and found it could not be produced at a cost price that made the exercise commercially viable. That was in 2004! Then again, the man actually planned to pay the suppliers- Donington Fall tended to blissfully forget that aspect.
Whoever buys "Norton" will only buy the trademark, and only deal with the bank owning it. The company is history. Whoever picks up the TM will want nothing to do with the tainted decade of the conman's rule.
As Swooshdave says, the 961 has been overtaken years ago by modern emissions and registration rules and the few that were fumbled together in Downington were fiddled through individual approval procedures. They never had a type approval and I doubt they ever passed a noise test unfiddled, i.e. in standard "production" spec. I know how we struggled in 1998 to get the C652 through approvals and that didn't make anything near the mechanical racket the 961 does.
Kenny Dreer's financier Curme did his homework and that is why he ended his adventure in the Norton history. He priced the 961 for production IN CHINA at the time and found it could not be produced at a cost price that made the exercise commercially viable. That was in 2004! Then again, the man actually planned to pay the suppliers- Donington Fall tended to blissfully forget that aspect.
