Tuesday 31 March 2015

Cop Magnet

"Daddy why is that man pushing that gold motorbike?" I'm taking the kids swimming in the car, 500 yards away, obliquely to my left, on the top edge of the park there is a man sweating it out in the daffodils. "Huh?!" It does look 'interesting' so I do a quick detour to cut him off before he escapes the undergrowth.
It's a 1956 US import Thunderbird forced through a funk mangle. Alvin has just assembled it and was pushing to the local garage to get an MOT so he can get it registered with a UK plate (then it won't need another MOT - or road tax, as its of such a venerable age. And no it doesn't legally need lights either). BP

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cop magnet? More like fanny magnet. That is bang tidy.

Nick said...

That is neat O' magneto neat, neet neat

Marcus @ MarcusMotoDesign said...

Lovely bike! Fantastic paint!

bikegrim said...

He doesn't need an MOT to register it as its pre 1960. I have just registered an imported 1958 Lambretta without insurance or MOT. Also he could have ridden it there, that is allowed, I have registered quite a few in recent years and under the new rules. As long as it's on the NoVA system to show no VaT due then it's easy....nice sled though.