1962 BSA Rocket Gold Star, 650cc. Registration number JFO 61...

Estimate

£7,000 - £9,000

1962 BSA Rocket Gold Star, 650cc. Registration number JFO 611. Frame number GA10 618. Engine number DA10R 62233 HHC.
Launched in February 1962, the RGS used a tuned A10 Super Rocket engine with a 9:1 compression, Spitfire camshaft, and Amal carb, producing some 50 bhp, the frame was similar to the Gold Star, without a kink and prefixed GA10. Options such as the RRT2 gearbox, drop bars and Siamesed pipes were available. It is believed some 1,580 bikes were produced and it is one of the most copied British bikes with a lot of look a likes out there. Production ended in 1963 with the unit construction A65.
JFO left the factory on the 31st October 1962 and went to Hap Alzina, BSA's USA West Coast Distributor in California, it came back in 1995 and was given a dating certificate by Classic Services. It was owned by Peter Morrish of South Brent in Devon at this time and he sold it to Stephen Burch in 2002, our vendor buying it from him in 2004 (receipt for £5,250 on file). In 2014 it was subject to a Police investigation as another owner claimed the frame number, that turned out to be a fake and this frame was declared the correct one.
Unused for many years it will require recommissioning before use although it has recently been run on a slave fuel line.
Sold with the V5C, V5, MOT's from 1995, 1998 and 2002 where the mileage increased from 44 to 882, today it is 891, various paperwork related to the investigation. Buyers should satisfy themselves as to the authentication of the machine.