1958 BSA Gold Star CB32/B33, 500cc. Registration number YRH ...

Hammer

£3,200

1958 BSA Gold Star CB32/B33, 500cc. Registration number YRH 485. Frame number CB32. 7634. Engine number BB33.4283 (see text).
Developed before WW2, the BSA ‘Gold Star’, named, of course, after the great Wal Handley’s Brooklands award for his BSA 100mph lap, was produced in small numbers only. Post-war, 1949 saw the model’s return and the beginning of a tremendous period of both race and off road success for the model, while the road ‘Gold Star’ benefited, of course, from the race-shop development. To ride a ‘Goldie’ became every BSA owner’s dream and thanks to the quality and robustness of the model, many riders did so. The bike’s fame has continued past the end of model production in 1963 and past the end of BSA itself in 1971. Indeed, there is a thriving industry in the production of spare parts to keep them on the road and even, it seems, of ‘replica’ machines of varying accuracy.
YRH is a typical story of many Goldies, how it started life and where it now is are a tad different. First registered in June 1958 the frame, with engine DBD34. GS. 3568 was delivered to Jordan of Hull and sold to Charles Reed of Hull, in 1963 it passed to Raymond Sims and back to Jordans in 1964, in 1965 it went to Richard Sabin, then in 1966 to David Stonehouse, in 1968 to Paul Ions and David Watson the same year, followed by Douglas King. Our vendors father bought it from him, without an engine, in 1981, later fitting a B33 unit, as listed above. Used for many years it passed to our vendor in 2016 and has been unused for several years. Please note the V5C states the engine number to be DBD34.GS.560. Buyers should satisfy themselves as to the frame and engine numbers on the bike and on the V5C and we advise that they rectify the issues with DVLA.
Sold with the V5C, V5 and RF60, it will need recommissioning before use.