1946 Vincent Rapide B #03
Engine F10AB/1/3 was delivered to V.L.Martin in California on September 30, 1946.
Al Mark, was from Los Angeles and Vincent Owners Club (VOC) member for many decades. He owned and rode F10AB/1/3 for many years, restoring it in the 1980’s. Al talked and cursed a lot and was known as YukYuk.
From Simon Dinsdale - Vincent HRD Owners Club - Machine Registrar
“As you probably know engine number 1 was dismantled and had the gearbox cut off by the factory and used as an experimental marine engine and renumbered. Those crankcases have survived but now fitted to a Norton gearbox. Engine number 2 is suspected to have never been made as it is not in the factory records books. So your engine number 3 is probably the earliest surviving complete series B engine”.
Engine F10AB/1/3 was delivered to V.L.Martin in California on September 30, 1946.
Al Mark, was from Los Angeles and Vincent Owners Club (VOC) member for many decades. He owned and rode F10AB/1/3 for many years, restoring it in the 1980’s. Al talked and cursed a lot and was known as YukYuk.
From Simon Dinsdale - Vincent HRD Owners Club - Machine Registrar
“As you probably know engine number 1 was dismantled and had the gearbox cut off by the factory and used as an experimental marine engine and renumbered. Those crankcases have survived but now fitted to a Norton gearbox. Engine number 2 is suspected to have never been made as it is not in the factory records books. So your engine number 3 is probably the earliest surviving complete series B engine”.
Engine F10AB/1/3 was delivered to V.L.Martin in California on September 30, 1946.
Al Mark, was from Los Angeles and Vincent Owners Club (VOC) member for many decades. He owned and rode F10AB/1/3 for many years, restoring it in the 1980’s. Al talked and cursed a lot and was known as YukYuk.
From Simon Dinsdale - Vincent HRD Owners Club - Machine Registrar
“As you probably know engine number 1 was dismantled and had the gearbox cut off by the factory and used as an experimental marine engine and renumbered. Those crankcases have survived but now fitted to a Norton gearbox. Engine number 2 is suspected to have never been made as it is not in the factory records books. So your engine number 3 is probably the earliest surviving complete series B engine”.