BSA Gold STAR D BD34 Catalina New Old Stock 1965 PRE 65 Best of British

This is not a restoration - it is a brand new "old stock" bike!!  Nearly 50 Years old 

Please call on 020 7486 7999 or send your number & Email to -07720 400402 

Supplied with fresh Fuel and ready to ride if you dare.

"New"BSA Gold Star DBD34 Catalina Frame number: CB32 C 870

Never Registered.  Exported to New Jersey New in 1962  &  returned ! 

Engine number DBD34 GS 6840  £24. 95

This is as close to a new Gold Star you will get.  Some age discolouration to tank.  It has provenance history etc  

It is proper. unmucked about with and it will stand any test - worth every penny!!  

Static indoor display for many many years . Started and running about ten years ago.  

Letter from John Gardner who wanted to photograph it for his book 8 inch front brake. megaphone Exhaust  WM2 Rims Silver Alloy tank.  

As shipped to New Jersey USA in 1965  Bill. AKA ?ˆ?Victor Man?ˆ? tells us he had this bike in the 1980's around 1983 He  paid £2. 00 for it. which means it?ˆ™s not really gone up in value. He bought it from John Hardon in Barrow in Furness.  He bought it as a new bike and sold it as such. sold it on into the trade. a guy called Ken Newby now deceased and he sold it to a guy called Ricky Johnson. who is still around.  Victor Man knows Ricky.  He sold it to James Brown Scotland who put it in a bungalow as a static display. From there it went to a museum followed by  Sotheby?ˆ™s and it became the Sotheby?ˆ™s Road show bike in the 1990s  Victor man remembers seeing it at Rex?ˆ™s Victory motorcycles in Camden when we sent it there to get running and replace the rubber perished bits on it. Since then it was on my office wall for many years and then moved to a heated garage where it has simply sat unloved.  Purchased as a new and unused BSA about fifteen years ago from Sotheby?ˆ™s themselves. Authenticated by Mike Jackson. who had the BSA fraternity crawl all over it including John Gardner the BSA Goldstar Owners Club technical Consultant.   It also appears to have passed through hands of Johnny Draper.  Because the bike has never been registered. it?ˆ™s been  quite difficult to check its history.   Absolutely standard and original.   I made all necessary enquiries when I bought  it.   It had been internally dismantled  to stop the bike being started when on display as people "tried to kick it over" .  I contacted a number of BSA bike shops that owned it in the seventies. No one ever ran it. as everyone thought it would "spoil it" and that it should remain "unrun".    It was clearly identified Reg Allen in Hanwell who asked me to lift the tank off and examine it for "Welding marks". He told me it had hung off the ceiling of his shop for several years and that one day the tank or bike was dropped. damaging the tank. To get the dent out. they had cut a hole in the bottom and rewelded it.   and no. he had not run it either!  I  had it recommissioned by Rex at Victory Motorcycles circa 1998 who said he had never heard a "New Goldstar". and it was impressive.    

Herewith work details as last carried out  then ago to ensure it could be used. It still hasn't been !

The Goldie has scratches on exhaust. (where kick start has caught it). and boot marks as well as blueing on exhaust from when bike was running.   Cut out under tank where repaired but other than that as brand new incl rubbery bits on tyres. (which would probably need changing)   It has never registered  and other than round the yard. ever ridden.  Back in 1998 it had new Cables. a full clutch engine strip down (as sat for so long). a new clutch. valves. seals. new piston rings. carburettor slide and all small moving things).  

Buy what you have been dreaming about without restoration. Chinese bits. or generally reproduction bits.  

This is the real McCoy - already reduced. now a mere £24. 95   

What a fantastic piece of history to own that can only appreciate.  

Absolute 100% correct. nbsp;original  and more importantly unused

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