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When ordinary just won't do

1966 BSA Spitfire in Excellent Original Condition

April 18, 2016 by Paul Crowe

1966 BSA Spitfire
1966 BSA Spitfire

If you like British bikes from the 1960s then you’ll appreciate what we have here, it’s a 1966 BSA Spitfire and everything on it is original, no reproduction parts of any sort, the owner even has a reproduction seat grab rail, but decided he just couldn’t do it.

1966 BSA Spitfire in excellent original condition
1966 BSA Spitfire in excellent original condition

The BSA Spitfire was a 650cc parallel twin with a 4 speed transmission. The engine had two overhead valves per cylinder and Amal carburetors. Drum brakes fore and aft and a great example of what British motorcycles of the day were supposed to be.

BSA Spitfire 650cc parallel twin
BSA Spitfire 650cc parallel twin

This 1966 BSA Spitfire was for sale on eBay, but the listing has ended.

Filed Under: British, Motorcycles Tagged With: 1960s, British, BSA, Spitfire

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Comments

  1. Felipe Zapata says

    April 18, 2016 at 8:57 am

    Be still my beating heart.

  2. James Russell says

    April 18, 2016 at 10:48 am

    Uh, aluminum rims?
    Not original

    • StevieB says

      April 19, 2016 at 5:30 am

      All Spitfires came from the factory with alloy rims

    • Paul Crowe says

      April 19, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      Thought I would look this up, since I wouldn’t know off the top of my head, and digging through the Uncommon Motors research library I found this ad:

      Below the image, in the description in the ad it says “alloy wheel rims.”

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