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SILVER   Dream Racer

WAYNE Fazzalari is a life-long petrolhead from Adelaide with an enviable collection of automobiles, including a couple of Porsches and a serious Ferrari. “My father was into speedway so I was always around cars and speedboats and engines,” he says, “just not so much motorbikes.”

That all changed when he visited a friend in France some years ago. “He had an original Triton, first registered in 1959,” Wayne says. “I’d never had a bike before but said to my friend, if I was ever going to have a bike, that’s what I would get.”

Wayne was true to his word when his mate later emailed to say he was moving the Triton on; a deal was struck and the bike was duly shipped down under. “I’d had it for a couple of years when I saw another

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