Beschreibung:

“Well into the 1960s and even today, when it is wrapped in a mystique carefully cultivated by thousands of fanatically enthusiastic owners, the big Vincent retained that commanding air about it when you met one on the road, and many a rider of avowedly super-sporting machinery would be humiliated by having some much older Black Shadow come past at the canter…” - L J K Setright. Arguably Britain’s foremost motoring journalist of his generation, the late Leonard Setright, himself a keen motorcyclist, was writing in the 1970s but what he said about the Vincent v-twin, and the Black Shadow in particular, remains every bit as true today. Ever since the Series A’s arrival in 1937, the Vincent v-twin has been synonymous with design innovation, engineering excellence and superlative high performance. The appeal of the Vincent, and the 120mph-plus Black Shadow in particular, lay in its ability to out-perform just about every other vehicle on the road, and in the early post-war years there was nothing to compare with it. This was a time when the average family sedan was barely capable of reaching 70mph, and not until the advent of Jaguar’s XK120 was there a production sportscar that could live with the thundering v-twins from Stevenage. Vincent works records show that frame ‘RC4307B’ is that of a Series C Black Shadow despatched in July 1949 to Van Royen, Bulawayo in what was then Southern Rhodesia, while engine ‘F10/AB/1/1773’ is from a Series-B Rapide that went to Nathan Smith in Durban, South Africa in April 1949. The machine is described by the vendor as previously totally restored to 'better than new' condition, but in need of some cosmetic refurbishment following a lengthy period in dry storage. The fuel tank has been sealed and professionally repainted, and a new speedometer fitted.