Picked up this rough looking '75 MkIII from a friend last May.
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It is supposed to be the last Norton sold new in Alabama. It sat on the dealer's floor till 1980. The first owner rode it that first summer, then parked it in the back yard and when it wouldn't start the following spring, left it there for 25 years. A friend that was a teacher and school bus driver bugged him for many years and finally got it. He in turn didn't get to it for a couple years and sold it on to another friend, who did a bunch of work on it, getting it running and cleaning it up some. He needed some cash, so we bought it for my wife. After 7 knee surgeries, the last being a complete replacement of the right knee, an e-start was gonna be what she needed to start riding Nortons after many years riding BMWs and Ducatis
I busted butt to get it running in time for the INOA rally in Asheville last summer.
Fortunately, I'd been collecting Interstate parts for another project, so had a friend who has done work for Barber paint the tank and sidecovers;
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