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Here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Norton-6 ... 519b4bc2ed
Yea, I saw the thread about it being an "Atlas" etc.. I thought a thread about the bike with a more accurate title would catch the attention of someone who was interested in model 88 Nortons though.
The odd things I see about the bike are:
1. If the bike has a serial number 106xxx, then it is a 1964 model, and I did not think they came with chronometric instruments that year...
2. Never saw or heard of a frame stamped "88ss". The code for model 88s was "122". If the bike has 88ss stamped on the frame instead of 122 I would be interested about it, and wary at the same time. Just as 650ss bikes had frames stamped with the code "18", not 650ss.....
Since the engine has obviously been apart and back together a bit to do that drilling of the fins, I would love to take it apart and see if anything else was ever done to it as far as hot-rod modifications.
Front brake is the original, just drilled full of holes like the cylinder.
Price is not high for the USA market. Someone just got over $1400 just for one of these frames on ebay. Add up the parts and you are right at about $3500 bucks.
If the bike does have good frame and engine numbers, then this is a very, very rare Norton. Atlases in this shape come up for sale fairly often. Maybe once every year or so a restorable 650ss will come up on ebay usa, but you will probably not see another 88ss this complete on ebay usa again for years.
I have been looking at and for these bikes (SS Nortons) seriously for the last twenty years and have never seen another 64' 88ss in the USA. I bought the 62' 88ss I found for sale, and I saw a 66' 88ss for sale in Marlyland once. Ian Kennedy told me he has a 62' in a basket that he brought here from England. There is one in California that is restored and I think is an import, and for some reason a guy in Ohio has one in use with a sidecar. There were the four Daytona 88ss racers in 1964 that were built up by Dunstall from stock 88ss bikes of which at least two are still around. Other than that all I have seen is a set of crankcases and other odd parts.
In the U.K. Mick Hemmings said in Classic Bike that he used to have an 88ss, the only genuine one he ever saw, which is something to say when you are up to your armpits in Nortons every day.
My two cents....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Norton-6 ... 519b4bc2ed
Yea, I saw the thread about it being an "Atlas" etc.. I thought a thread about the bike with a more accurate title would catch the attention of someone who was interested in model 88 Nortons though.
The odd things I see about the bike are:
1. If the bike has a serial number 106xxx, then it is a 1964 model, and I did not think they came with chronometric instruments that year...
2. Never saw or heard of a frame stamped "88ss". The code for model 88s was "122". If the bike has 88ss stamped on the frame instead of 122 I would be interested about it, and wary at the same time. Just as 650ss bikes had frames stamped with the code "18", not 650ss.....
Since the engine has obviously been apart and back together a bit to do that drilling of the fins, I would love to take it apart and see if anything else was ever done to it as far as hot-rod modifications.
Front brake is the original, just drilled full of holes like the cylinder.
Price is not high for the USA market. Someone just got over $1400 just for one of these frames on ebay. Add up the parts and you are right at about $3500 bucks.
If the bike does have good frame and engine numbers, then this is a very, very rare Norton. Atlases in this shape come up for sale fairly often. Maybe once every year or so a restorable 650ss will come up on ebay usa, but you will probably not see another 88ss this complete on ebay usa again for years.
I have been looking at and for these bikes (SS Nortons) seriously for the last twenty years and have never seen another 64' 88ss in the USA. I bought the 62' 88ss I found for sale, and I saw a 66' 88ss for sale in Marlyland once. Ian Kennedy told me he has a 62' in a basket that he brought here from England. There is one in California that is restored and I think is an import, and for some reason a guy in Ohio has one in use with a sidecar. There were the four Daytona 88ss racers in 1964 that were built up by Dunstall from stock 88ss bikes of which at least two are still around. Other than that all I have seen is a set of crankcases and other odd parts.
In the U.K. Mick Hemmings said in Classic Bike that he used to have an 88ss, the only genuine one he ever saw, which is something to say when you are up to your armpits in Nortons every day.
My two cents....