When the 1961 BSA Golden Flash was wheeled into the garage in 1973, it could not have known that this was to be its final movement for almost half a century. The quiet slumber in the benign Adelaide climate, gathering a coat of dust, preserved the big British twin perfectly – its odometer sitting, seemingly trapped in time – at 3,821 miles.
Harold Wigzell forked out a wad of his hard-earned cash in February 1962 to purchase the Golden Flash from BSA distributor J.N. Taylor’s at 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide. Its final South Australian registration – 18.654, hand-painted as was the custom in those days – expired on 23rd February 1973. It is now owned by Marco Moretti, who takes up the story. “My father has known Judith (Harold Wigzell’s widow) through his car club for over 20 years and was offered to buy her 1970 Mk 2 Cortina that she had owned since new and was no longer able to drive. When going to have a look at the car in January 2021 we discovered the bike sitting under a cover in her garage; it had not moved from there in 48 years. Having a huge passion for old motorbikes, owning a 1973 Laverda
