So after some dusting and cleaning, the old lady showed herselve and I have to say, most of the stuff is in a very original state, with patina and all. Unfortunately that also comes with some downsides. there is some rust and dents. And when it was stored 7 years ago (for the second time) with the idea to look after it “next months”, in hindsight, i should have been done more carefully…

We inspected the motor oil left in de engine and the petrol still in the tank and carburators; Yep, all is gummed up and needs extensive cleaninng. The good thing about cleaning is that it hardly cost any money, just elbow grease 🙂

When I say we, I mean my father-in-law en me. He has a Motorcycle museum in Best, The Netherlands. It is dedicated to English motorcycles, and mainly Norton.
The Guzzi is also stored there, together with other orphan motorcycles like an old Second World War BSA.

Every first Saturday of the month, the museum is open and I happend to be there on the first Saturday of February. A couple of visitors were looking arround and 1 of them used to be a Guzzi collector. So as soon as he saw one of the side panels on the workbench, he started talking about his Guzzi’s! It is so cool to accidentally meet people that accidentally have a lot of knowledge that otherwise whould have taken ages to get for me. The best tip he gave was a Dutch Moto Guzzi parts supplier that can deliver everything Stein Dinse has and more: Jan Robers Motoren from Boekelo! It is still funny to see that the most experienced people not necessarily have the best websites on the interwebs!

When I got home, I imidiatly started searching the sites and pretty soon I had my basket full of goodies need to breath some life back into the old lady.

Next time more….

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