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RARE BREED

NORTON Commandos are not exactly thick on the ground but some models are rarer than others. Lenny Norton’s 750 SS (for Street Scramber, not Super Sport) is amongst the rarest. Just 400 were built in 1971, all of them exported to the US. An unknown

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