10 radiators.. 4 turbos.. 1% of a tranche-assembling TheMarketWillCorrect crook's annual 'bonus'.. ... ...

Fortunately, when I pick it up in Paris I'll be only minutes away from E. Germany er.. VW's lovely 0-traffic road.
I think mine ought to be good for 410 kph, or I'll swap it for a slightly better build. EB would understand..
(Extremism in pursuit of Speed is no vice, as Barry G. once observed.)

Bitchin video; the fusslessness! ... the 200-300 kph in 9 sec -- can hear him talk! at 400.
Indeed, mankind lacks scale and relativity.

qed

Kinda Alzheimerish for them to omit a proper closing.

Now, had my Shadow been there (on any day) and with a even slightly familiar rider ...
(And.. it seems that the VOC / er, owners' club have now reproduced the full inventory, built a New pukka Shadow out of spares to prove it -- promptly sold same to some lucky Anzac.)

Ergo, the Beat Goes On! (make a good song title..)
Maybe when the last of the Tektronix tube-type scopes is switched on, working just fine in 2050, there will be a Vincent in the hovercraft parking lot.


Vrooooom

http://www.jaylenosg...ck-shadow/188134/

That is: an earlier pic of this *machine was almost detailed enough to read the S/N; thought it was that of my near-mint ex's: F10AB/1B/8679.
But later perusal couldn't really settle that. Haven't bothered to ask him to confirm. Bet he'd reply, too.

Anyway.. you can hear his description and also the machine, on a test ride.
His verbal description covers the ingenuity of the design -- and its unique performance in-the-day; poor person's Ferrari:
0-60 in 6 sec when Detroit iron was more like 16+.
It simply looked sinister. And, it was.

I see there are several websites now with more than most want to know about now 50 yo. bikes.
(Had I stored mine, as-was -- even without any quite minor detailing it would sell for $70K+; such is the thirst for really Bitchin timeless designs, in contrast to the me-too multi-cylinder mass-produced monsters du jour.. oft with no Soul. Lucky moi.. having a Shadow when there were places you could Use it, without scaring the natives or oneself. All that and decent Brakes, too.


* I bought off of eBay an autographed pic of Leno on same bike, just for fun. (It is not the side-view seen in a large format calendar, where the S/N was guesstimated.)


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