Then there are a couple of Brough Superiors too – an SS80-100 (the model was originally an SS100 fitted with a side valve SS80-type engine, but this one has a pukka ohv JAP V-twin installed) and a rather lovely 1931 SS80 ‘proper’. The ohv job will of course be the more expensive (estimate is £160,000-200,000) with the equally pretty side valve estimated at upwards of £50,000.
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