Lot details
Registration No: PTF 273R
Frame No: 2210497
Engine No: 2210497
cc: 790
MOT Expiry Date: June 2006

"The MV 750S America is so much more than just a fine motorcycle. It's a rare and priceless collector's piece. Its pedigree, after 37 world championships, is impeccable. Its image and not a few of its components are rooted in living legend, taken directly from the most soulful racing bike of all time. And if the howl of its exhausts has been muted for the road, evocative echoes of Hailwood and Agostini remain to place the MV on a pedestal no other motorcycle can aspire to" (Bike Magazine 1976)
Launched in 1975, the 750S America was powered by a 790cc dohc four-cylinder engine that developed some 86bhp @ 8,500rpm. A thinly disguised (albeit heavily overbored) 500cc GP unit, it was mated to five-speed shaft-drive transmission. Credited with a top speed in excess of 135mph, the short wheelbase MV (1390mm) was built around a tubular-section, double-cradle steel frame equipped with exquisite Ceriani forks. Priced at $6,000 in the US (or £3,189 in the UK), it proved highly exclusive.
Finished in red over silver, this particular example carries the optional fairing (a £212 extra in period) and a later sports exhaust system. Rated by the vendor as being in good overall condition (with 'Italian' electrics), it was apparently new and unregistered when imported to the UK in June 1977. Purchased by its second keeper Peter Guslov in May 1981, it came into the present ownership the following June. Showing an unwarranted 17,320 miles on its odometer, this Italian exotic is offered for sale with MOT valid until 21st June 2006 and road tax until 31st May 2006.