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Long before amateur custom bike builders fused Triumph engines into Norton featherbed frames to make the Triton in the 1960s and ’70s, Vincent and Indian collaborated on a couple of hybrid prototypes that were stillborn projects. In 1948, the manager of Indian Motorcycles, Ralph Rogers, and the director of Vincent HRD, Philip Vincent, agreed on a …
A long lost Vincent 1938 HRD Series A Rapide found among a collection in Japan is expected to break the world record for a Vincent sold at auction. The current record for a Vincent is £201,000 ($A340,000), sold in 2008. H&H Classics spokesman Mark Bryan says this bike was once owned by legendary racing driver, …