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£3,750
1958 Norton 99, 596 cc. Registration number RDN 215. Frame number N1478439. Engine number (see text 90158.
Norton's 500cc twin found a new home in the racing singles' 'Featherbed' duplex frame in November 1951. The newcomer - titled 'Dominator 88' - was the first production Norton roadster to feature the lightweight, race-proven chassis. Updated annually, by the decade's end the Dominator had received an alloy cylinder head, full-width hubs, welded rear subframe, alternator electrics, coil ignition and - for 1960 - the narrower 'slimline' Featherbed frame among countless other improvements.
Introduced for 1956, the 596cc Dominator 99 was outwardly identical to the 88. Endowed with greater power and higher gearing enabling it to top the magic 'ton', the 99 nevertheless retained all the excellent handling and steering characteristics associated with the Featherbed chassis. One of the Rockers' favorites, the 99 remained essentially unchanged - apart from gaining alternator / coil-ignition electrics for 1958 - until dropped in 1962.
Stock Dominator 99s are remarkably uncommon as many have morphed over the past 55 years into Tritons and other Featherbed specials.
RDN started life in York in August 1958 and by July 1980 was in Withernsea being MOT'd at 32,021 miles, two years later this had risen to 32,041 miles. In 1996 it was bought by Alan Frankish of Kirk Ella who had it MOT'd every year in Hull, mainly by Kingston Motors on Springbank, the mileage gently rising from 32,081 to 60, 808 when he sold it to our vendor in September 2017, an average of 1,300 miles every year. Today it is at 64,816 miles. At some point the engine has been changed to number 90158, although this has not been recorded on the V5C.
This well looked after 99 has Borrini rims, it comes with the V5C, and the MOT history described above.
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