The Gold Star Buyer's Companion: 5th Edition, Revised and Expanded The main body of the 4th edition was 21 page. It is organized for potential Gold Star buyers to use when inspecting one of these highly desirable machines for possible purchase. One chapter is devote
| Title | : | The Gold Star Buyer's Companion: 5th Edition, Revised and Expanded |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (450 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0692541195 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 158 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-22 |
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Editorial : About the Author Ever since his first ride on the back of a Triumph Thunderbird at age ten the author has maintained a keen interest in motorcycles of all kinds. One result is that over the past forty years he has assembled one of the largest private collections of motorcycle books and literature in the U.S. He has drawn extensively from the information in that collection along with his own experience as the owner of two Gold Stars for this book. Previously he edited an anthology of writings on the early years of motorcycling entitled Motorcycling at the Turn of the Century, contributed articles and columns to The Antique Motorcycle, Early-Riders Magazine, Motorcycle Collector Magazine, and Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, and wrote an essay on the history of motorcycles as well as the Bibliography for the catalog of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's record-breaking1998 The Art of the Motorcycle. He also served as co-Curator of that exhibition,
This buyer's guide for the classic BSA Gold Star covers the complete range of production from the original 1938 Model M24 through post-WWII models ZB, BB, CB, DB and DBD. It is organized for potential Gold Star buyers to use when inspecting one of these highly desirable machines for possible purchase. Significantly expanded from the previous edition, it includes specialized information and photographs necessary to avoid paying Gold Star prices for the similar-looking B32/B34 and Alloy Clipper "competition models," or purchasing dubious components such as renumbered engines and counterfeit RRT2 gearboxes. The information also will be invaluable for restorers as well as people generally interested in the history of these machines. One chapter is devoted to the 1957 Spitfire Scrambler, a little-known hybrid produced only that year consisting of a twin-cylinder 650 cc engine in Gold Star cycle parts, predating the Rocket Gold Star by five years. The main body of the 4th edition was 21 page
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