G'day All,
Well my Super Rocket I purchased on ebay landed last week.
It was certyainly a mission to get it back from N.Y. to Australia,
lots of things to be careful with when importing as I found out,
didn't help that the seller was 90kg out with his weight estimation,
but all in all, it was a bit of a bargain. The eng/gbox is in fantastic nick,
looks to have done very little work, all nuts etc. look relatively un -touched,
no broken fins, turns over with spark, so its a good start. I had to leave the frame
there because the bike had no title & the No's were ground off, but got the S/arm
& everything else. No front end though, had some kind of japanese extended forks.
The wheels, oil tank, tool box are also in great nick.
The crank cases have a couple of stamps that my '61 doesn't have, has a 63 on the
next face back from the eng. No. & under the area where the dynamo sits it has
crank case No's that coincide on both sides, which would make it obvious if people
had to swap around cases, obviously the 63 is the year, but my 61 doesn't have
anything on that face.
Should be a good project down the track, I'm not in any hurry on this one, will have
to track down a '63 frame, front end, guards etc.
