- Wed Jul 17, 2019 5:01 pm
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How anyone managed to get an H plate for that is beyond me, unless someone actually did build it around a genuine 1970 frame and got a dating certificate from the club. Once you have got a frame with a valid V5C you can change it around as you like, though an engine swap means notifying the DVLA and insurance. I'd be double checking the frame numbers and possibly contacting the club. I certainly hope it IS legit, but Rushour isn't the only one to have the word "ringer" come to mind.
If you don't already have copy, Mart, I'd thoroughly recommend Gordon May's book "Made In India" about the history of the Madras/Chennai Bullets.
The "Machismo" was the name first used for a more blinged-up version of the home market 350 Bullet, similar to the De-luxe export 350s, until the name was re-used for the first of the A350 lean burn engine models round about 1999. These were originally fitted with the normal 4 speed right foot shift and CDI ignition. Round about 2003/4 they swapped over to left foot 5 speed boxes and front disk brakes, followed soon after by an electric start version with TCI ignition.
I have to say that what you have there LOOKS like a standard 2005-8 E/S 350 Machismo rolling chassis (which is why I have my doubts), into which someone has fitted the engine from another 350 Indian home market model, the 350 Electra 5S. That disk front end is exactly what a Machismo from the mid naughties would have been fitted with, apart from the skimpy black mudguard, i.e. they're proper RE disk brake forks from the period with the knock-through spindle (identical to the Electra-X forks), and NOT a modified set of drum brake forks with one of our hosts' kits.
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