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    Sep 26, 2018 4 minutes

    Liberty updates

    Geoffrey Ellis writes, “When my story of the YDS1 Yamaha Liberty Ranch Model was included in OBA 26 it was at the time believed that all sales records had been destroyed and numbers built were therefore unknown.

    The Ranch Model was Yamaha’s first off-road motorcycle, produced specifically for Frank Johns and the Liberty Motor Company in Adelaide who had world-wide rights to it. Recently the Liberty Motors sales books surfaced and it can be now said that 67 Ranch models were manufactured in total. Whilst Ranch Models are often claimed to be from 1959, the first of the two evaluation

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