Subject: RE: 1975 build plate and signing in
Author: Hunter Jones
Date: Dec 23, 2001, 9:40 AM
Post ID: 1709221795
Hey Folks,
There will be confusion.
But fortunately we have Ian to keep up with the serial #s! I am sure he has
found a pattern by now.
The Guzzis I have owned have been in strict numerical order by build date.
I am curious as to when the frame # and the engine # were no longer
matching as built. I don't recall any loops but I have seen Tonti frame
bikes that came fron the factory with mismatched numbers. That will be a
sticky point as those bikes pick up in value. I have always tried to keep
the numbers together as down the road it will matter! Check out the old car
market. A Pontiac GTO without the right engine in it loses out on value. It
will come to that one day for the Guzzi. I already look for matching numbers.
That's not to say that it is not worth getting the stuff together to get
one on the road if the numbers don't match. I'm all for keeping as many on
the road as possible as riding them is what it's all about! It will just
affect the value at some point. I'm not a sticky beak number checkin' no
ridin' bike collector. Mine have oil and gas and a valid plate!
I once asked a fellow (as I sat on his V 7 Sport which was roped off from
the public and did not smell at all of fuel) "When is a motorcycle not a
motorcycle?"
Answer:"When it's a piece of furniture."
Hunter
Who's ready for some egg nog?
At 03:52 PM 12/21/2001 -0800, you wrote:
| This is all gonna create a huge mess if the loops become really valuable in the future, because it makes it really almost impossible to verify that a rare specimen (such as a 1975 Eldo) really is what its owner says it is. Only the factory knows for sure. GF |
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