c.1951 Vincent Comet with Rapide engine
No Reserve

Registration No: Un-Registered
Frame No: RC/1/7668
MOT: Exempt

• A stalled project in need of completion
• Fitted with the Rapide's mighty 1,000cc V-twin
• Believed to have received a full engine overhaul

The Vincent story begins with Phil Vincent's purchase of the ailing HRD company in 1928. Initially producing bikes with proprietary engines installed in his own chassis, by the mid-1930s he had developed his own 500cc single and 1000cc twin-cylinder designs which would remain the ne plus ultra of motorcycle power units until the company's closure in 1955. The V-twin made Vincents the fastest production motorcycles in the world, and they became the machines everyone aspired to. The Comet single and Rapide and Black Shadow twins still stand among the most revered and desirable motorcycles of all time.

Offered for sale as a stalled project, this Vincent combines a Series C Comet frame with a Series C Rapide engine. The vendor, a Vincent owner in the early 1960s, started collecting the parts in the 1990s and started assembling them until other commitments interfered with his plans, and it was subsequently placed into storage until the present. We are advised that the engine has been fully renovated; there is no documentary evidence of this, though the engine has clearly received some sympathetic attention. Offered at no reserve, the Vincent is to be sold strictly as viewed and with all parts shown in the pictures. There is no accompanying paperwork.

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