1949 Ariel KG De Luxe, 500cc. Registration number GTM 971 (n...

Hammer

£2,700

1949 Ariel KG De Luxe, 500cc. Registration number GTM 971 (not registered with DVLA see text). Frame number HH 554. Engine number HT 883.
Sold with the RF 60 and Dragonfly dating certificate.
The Red Hunter was the name used for a range of Ariel single-cylinder and twin-cylinder motorcycles. They were designed by the firm's chief designer Val Page in 1932 around an overhead-valve single-cylinder engine he developed six years earlier. Originally a "sports" version of the Ariel 500, 250 and 350cc versions were developed and became popular with grass track and trials riders. From 1948, the 500cc twin-cylinder Ariels were produced in De Luxe (KG) and Red Hunter (KH) models. All Red Hunters had a distinctive dark red petrol and oil tanks.
GTM was originally dispatched to Bryant's Ltd of Biggleswade on the 11th January 1949 and has RF 60 history for four owners in Norfolk in the early 1960's then it was stored. It now comes to the market as a stalled restoration, the frame has been powder coated, the wheels rebuilt, the original tank has the export colourway of chrome and paint, correct for this year. The engine turns over but it appears the timing is out. It now needs finishing.
Sold with the RF 60 and Dragonfly dating certificate.