1960 Velocette Viper
No Reserve

Registration No: 921 XVT
Frame No: RS14534
MOT: Exempt

• Evidently the recipient of a high-quality restoration
• Believed to have been in single ownership until 2015
• Very little recent use

Veloce Ltd., the family-owned business which made Velocettes, was a great technical innovator, patenting designs such as the positive-stop foot shift and swinging-arm rear suspension with hydraulic dampers. Its motorsport successes included two 350cc World Championship titles and a still-unbeaten 500cc single-cylinder record of averaging over 100mph for 24 hours. The Venom, itself a 500cc single, appeared in 1955 as a sports version of the MSS, and the Viper was introduced alongside as its 350cc sister. With an engine designed by Charles Udall with a high-compression piston and light-alloy cylinder head, the Viper was handsomely finished in Black or Willow Green with plenty of chrome, and remained in production until 1968. It was said to produce 28bhp and achieve 90mph.

Originally registered in Hull as ‘539 HRH’, this beautiful 1960 Viper was issued with its present registration in 2022. Understood to have been in single ownership until 2015, it has had four owners since then, and entered the current ownership in 2021. It has evidently received a very high-quality restoration at some stage. Since the Viper fell out of use more than twenty years ago, and remained inactive until it was M.O.T.’d in 2021, it seems likely that that was when the restoration was completed. Supplied with the V5C, it fully deserves to be used and shown.

For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217