Store Cupboard Special

After two months where Dave Manning has kindly taken the weight off me with these features – thanks Dave – and where we’ve enlisted some specialists to add gloss to our (well, dad’s) endeavours, it’s back to me to present what should, if all goes to plan, be the last couple of episodes in the tale of this Velocette’s rebirth – or arguably birth, as it has been built largely from parts.

While the seat and petrol tank were away, there was a bit of fettling going on in the meantime. After we’d published the pictures of the project ‘dressed up’ it was apparent and obvious that the punched-on-the-snout appearance of the front mudguard was going to prove bothersome, so dad set about improving the situation. Longer stays were the decided upon solution, so he set about making some from tube, with the ends flattened and drilled to suit. These were duly painted black and fitted – it