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1967 Norton 750 Scrambler - 4-Page Vintage Motorcycle Road Test Article
Original, vintage magazine article.Page Size: Approx. 8\" x 11\" (21 cm x 27 cm) each pageCondition: Good
American motorcyclists have grown accustomed tomaking the most of machinery reaching our shoresyear after year that has been “carefully tailored” to ourrather peculiar needs. And, predictably, each year’s newAmericanized models fit about as well as a mail-ordertuxedo. So, we get out the tools and fuss, cuss and fettleuntil we arrive at what we asked for in the beginning, andafter some years of playing this frustrating game, we havebecome resigned to the idea that something will mostassuredly be lost in the translation — although in manycases, the language is ostensibly the same.Imagine our surprise, then, when we encountered amotorcycle that is so well suited to the U.S. market thatwe’d swear it had been designed in this country. That theNorton 750 Scrambler blends into the American scenelike the aroma of roasting turkey on Thanksgiving day, ishardly a rare and wonderful coincidence: the package wasdeveloped in the Southern California desert in a short butexhaustive six-week program that was conducted to de-buga potentially good hybrid that was feasibly producible frombits and pieces reposing on one firm’s shelves. The newNorton, dubbed the P-11, is the brainchild of Bob Blairof ZDS Motors, Norton-Villiers West Coast Distributor,and is a composite of two of the concern’s more excitingachievements of recent years — the 750cc Norton Atlastwin and the G-85CS chassis. This information alonewould indicate two rather important things: it’s going to bestrong, and it’s going to handle well. This superficial hy-pothesis has potential — and hypothetical — weaknesses,...
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