Building on success
The Seventies: the world was changing, MX had come along and only the die-hards called it scrambling and bemoaned the fact this foreign takeover of our sport would be the end of civilisation. This attitude ignored the fact AMC produced a ‘motocross’ model to run alongside their ‘scrambles’ models as early as 1956… okay, the scene was changing, the Sixties had come and gone, the Seventies were in colour and many reading this will have done as I did, read the features in the press of the day and sent an SAE off to whichever importer was featured that week with a ‘please may I have your latest brochure.’
In the case of Montesa, my SAE would head towards Bury in Lancashire and the business premises of Jim Sandiford, who was the Montesa importer for the UK. Back came the colour brochures
