Subject: Re: Was: New Member now Ambo-envy

Author: rick woods

Date: Jul 12, 2001, 5:20 PM

Post ID: 1707472413

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Keith, Look at your casting. It has fins in a kind of star
pattern
around the casting. The newer ones are smooth, cleaner looking
maybe, but
not as interesting. Find an Eldorado picture.
Rich


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From: Keith Ruff [SMTP:klru-@webspan.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:40 AM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: RE: Was: New Member now Ambo-envy

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What is the difference in the rear drive unit between the
Ambo and
Eldo?

Keith Ruff
71 Police Amabassador - NJ

Rich Zink wrote:

Dead on as usual Ian. Before I bought my

Ambassador I only
wanted an

Eldorado. But in the year of looking I had found that the

Ambassador

appealed to me more in its own little ways. As stated the

rear
drive

unit is
a thing of beauty compared to the newer one and the single

speedo
with

the
simple polished housing has its own understated elegance.

Sure it
would

be
nice to have a fresh balanced, blueprinted 1000 cc lump in

it but

somehow it
doesn't matter when your pulling 70 down your favorite

road and
the

exhaust
is singing and the engine is in one of it's 'sweet' spots.

Gotta
like

it!
Rich

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From: Ian Adkins [SMTP:adk-@gte.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:20 PM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: Re: New Member


Paul,

You would be surprised how well these bikes run if

properly
tuned.

Seems
that when they get up into the higher rpms they

take on a
life of

their own.
The thumping two cylinder turns into a sweet

humming
machine. Hard

to
explain......you will just have to see for

yourself :-)

I use to think that the Eldo was the better bike

with bigger
engine

and 5
speed. Also...I thought that they were more

collectible.
Truth is

that the
Ambos have some nice characteristics that were

lost in the
Eldo. The

rear
drive unit is a thing of beauty compared with the

Eldos.
Also...the

single
speedo nacelle on the earlier models really give

the bike a
nice

look as
compared to the two instrument cluster.

Regards...Ian