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Engines--these begin with, of course, the "bottom end" or the crankshaft assembly. On ours, we start with Maughan and Sons newly machined parts, shipped here were our expert adds genuine Vincent connecting rods that have been magniflux tested for cracks and tested for straightness and truth, adds an appropriate set of new 8:1 cr pistons and ships the assembled item back to Maughan for dynamic balancing by their trusted machinist. The resulting assembly is shipped back to us for installation in a Vincent with the knowledge we have the talents of the best in the world in our engines. We have never had a failure in one of our remanufactured engines and I think you can see why. Customers are most concerned, I think, with this part of their purchase and should rest easy to know the lengths to which we go to produce only the best.
One customer, after having his Black Shadow for some time and winning several national concours d'elegance, called to report that after the judging, the crowd wanted to see and hear it run. He admitted he ran it up to 115 mph..."in third gear!" Not recommended on new engines, but an illustration of the quality we produce.
The rest of the process is very similar in that we use components from the best makers all over the world. The Isle of Wight is where our Vincent cams are remade, a famous rebuilder of the genuine KVF Lucas magnetos is in Britain, our saddle maker in California, electric starters from France and more. In the end, we join the best in the world together to build your Vincent.
And speaking of electric starters, we customarily add the very fine electric starters and make the appropriate voltage changes to 12 volts as these can barely be seen--from underneath and make the use of the Black Shadow much easier for most riders. They can of course, be left off if one so chooses. More on these beauties later.
1952 VINCENT BLACK SHADOW, Series "C", aka, "The MONTLHERY RECORD/VIETNAM BLACK SHADOW" and utilizes a real live, unchanged and genuine factory racing engine. Special everything and built as a backup engine to the "standard" record breaking event bike at MONTLHERY, France in 1952. Several endurance records were shattered by Vincent which wanted to show how fast their street bikes were. Tremendous history, this bike is nearing completion in our shops. A superb and historically important bike bound to be the top piece in any Vincent collector’s or museum’s collection. It’s that good. Race carbs, heads, crank, cams, etc., etc. It’s a Lightning in everything but name as they were trying to play like any old regular Shadow could run this fast, this long. A factory cheater bike if you will. Needless to say, this one’s expensive, but should continue to appreciate. Read more...