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1959 Triumph T120 Bonneville Pre-unit Rat/Bobber.
Matching numbers! The miles are unknown as bike has had no odometer since I was a child but it has sat garaged since 1990.
No battery in it.
But has compression and spark when kick-starter is depressed.
Tires are over 30 years old -Back tire's Schrader valve leaks.
Dad was young when he purchased it in Tucson AZ in '60-61 and started adding chrome right away (There's even an apocryphal family tale of a motorist blaming the glint off this bike for that motorist hitting another car).
Later, living in Los Angeles, Dad disassembled the entire bike in the mid-to-late-60s and gave it the hippied-out airbrushed rainbow paint job with tiny, randomly placed, hand-painted flowers & US counterculture-era colloquial phrases and re-assebled it.
I have more pics if needed.
He kept this bike on the road until 1990, shortly before health problems took his leg and he ended up putting a sidecar on a newer Harley as his regular ride.
In '93 Dad registered the Bonnie as non-operating retroactive to '90.
When Dad passed in summer 2001, my brother in LA was handling his affairs but, right after 9-11 of that year, the military re-activated him and shipped him overseas.
So he had me get the vehicles sold and/or out of dad's house so we could sell it without making too many more payments.
That's when I trailered the Triumph to Arizona where it continued to sit garaged, sheet covered, for an additional 22 years.
This bike hasn't been turned over in 30 years but, like I said, it has compression and spark when kick-starter is depressed! I had hoped to one day get it back on the road but won't be able to.
Arizona registration is currently title-only.
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Matching numbers! The miles are unknown as bike has had no odometer since I was a child but it has sat garaged since 1990.
No battery in it.
But has compression and spark when kick-starter is depressed.
Tires are over 30 years old -Back tire's Schrader valve leaks.
Dad was young when he purchased it in Tucson AZ in '60-61 and started adding chrome right away (There's even an apocryphal family tale of a motorist blaming the glint off this bike for that motorist hitting another car).
Later, living in Los Angeles, Dad disassembled the entire bike in the mid-to-late-60s and gave it the hippied-out airbrushed rainbow paint job with tiny, randomly placed, hand-painted flowers & US counterculture-era colloquial phrases and re-assebled it.
I have more pics if needed.
He kept this bike on the road until 1990, shortly before health problems took his leg and he ended up putting a sidecar on a newer Harley as his regular ride.
In '93 Dad registered the Bonnie as non-operating retroactive to '90.
When Dad passed in summer 2001, my brother in LA was handling his affairs but, right after 9-11 of that year, the military re-activated him and shipped him overseas.
So he had me get the vehicles sold and/or out of dad's house so we could sell it without making too many more payments.
That's when I trailered the Triumph to Arizona where it continued to sit garaged, sheet covered, for an additional 22 years.
This bike hasn't been turned over in 30 years but, like I said, it has compression and spark when kick-starter is depressed! I had hoped to one day get it back on the road but won't be able to.
Arizona registration is currently title-only.
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