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Title: 'Interesting" Guzzi on ebay!
Post by: bigbikerrick on March 07, 2016, 02:16:40 PM: Hello Folks , I ran into this while looking at ebay today....What can I say.....1 Picture = 1K words!!
Rick.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Moto-Guzzi-Ambassador-/252311721123?forcerrptr=true&hash=item3abef354a3:g:694AAOSwyjBW3OxG&item=252311721123
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Post by: arveno on March 07, 2016, 02:36:08 PM: love it , i would ride it .
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Post by: azguzzirep on March 07, 2016, 02:48:20 PM: Didn't George Jetson have one like that?

Tom
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Post by: Arizona Wayne on March 07, 2016, 02:51:59 PM: Too bad about signs of corrosion everywhere. :sad: Never seen that fairing before, that's for sure.
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Post by: bigbikerrick on March 07, 2016, 02:57:30 PM: Quote from: Arizona Wayne on March 07, 2016, 02:51:59 PM
Too bad about signs of corrosion everywhere. :sad: Never seen that fairing before, that's for sure.

Thats not corrosion....thats "Patina from Intergalactic travel" :grin:
Rick
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Post by: Penderic on March 07, 2016, 03:43:32 PM: Looks like 2nd hand front fenders from a car or carnival ferris ride were stuck on.
:huh:
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Post by: beetle on March 07, 2016, 03:52:51 PM: That. Is. Awesome.
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Post by: tazio on March 07, 2016, 04:05:11 PM: Quote from: bigbikerrick on March 07, 2016, 02:57:30 PM

Thats not corrosion....thats "Patina from Intergalactic travel" :grin:
Rick

THIS !
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Post by: SeanF on March 07, 2016, 04:45:42 PM: Quote from: bigbikerrick on March 07, 2016, 02:57:30 PM

Thats not corrosion....thats "Patina from Intergalactic travel" :grin:
Rick

Made me laugh, senor.. :grin:

I would add "time travel" to the source of that patina...if not to the actual future, to a future as imagined by 50s & 60s sci-fi storytellers & artists.

That being said, I'd ride the hell out of it.
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Post by: fotoguzzi on March 07, 2016, 04:51:18 PM: Dig IT!
I like his auction style, start low with no reserve..
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Post by: chuck peterson on March 07, 2016, 04:54:24 PM: Never seen one, gotta be a home built
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Post by: BugSpatteredJacket on March 07, 2016, 05:08:28 PM: I feel strangely attracted to this motorcycle. The history behind it along with all the countries its travelled, its all very intriguing.

I wonder what is missing from the front where the round circles are (headlights perhaps)? According to the listings, its an original Guzzi offering but I can't recall ever seeing this personally?

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/mcl23aren/1971%20Moto%20Guzzi%20Ambassador/IMG_9015_zpsba6v4zad.jpg)
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Post by: rboe on March 07, 2016, 05:45:00 PM: I love that fairing!
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Post by: canuck750 on March 07, 2016, 06:20:11 PM: I love it!

Now I know where Victory got their style cues.
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Post by: Antietam Classic Cycle on March 07, 2016, 06:58:02 PM: Quote from: BugSpatteredJacket on March 07, 2016, 05:08:28 PM
I wonder what is missing from the front where the round circles are (headlights perhaps)?

Holes are for machine gun barrels. :wink:
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Post by: giusto on March 07, 2016, 07:18:02 PM: Quote from: BugSpatteredJacket on March 07, 2016, 05:08:28 PM
I feel strangely attracted to this motorcycle. The history behind it along with all the countries its travelled, its all very intriguing.

I wonder what is missing from the front where the round circles are (headlights perhaps)? According to the listings, its an original Guzzi offering but I can't recall ever seeing this personally?

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/mcl23aren/1971%20Moto%20Guzzi%20Ambassador/IMG_9015_zpsba6v4zad.jpg)

Nothin strange about it...very cool bike..I dig all the stuff that goes with it...would love to see a photo of the guy....in one visible part of the letters it says he has was in a store last year that has a rich assortment of Moto-Guzzis...huh :)
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Post by: wymple on March 07, 2016, 07:20:17 PM: I'd rock it....
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Post by: cloudbase on March 07, 2016, 07:29:17 PM: It has that 1952 Mercury look to it. I'd ride it.
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Post by: Jim Rich on March 07, 2016, 07:48:06 PM: I think those things are for mounting JATO rockets for passing trucks uphill in the mountains. Here hold me beer, watch this... :grin:
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Post by: O on March 07, 2016, 07:50:15 PM: Quote from: Antietam Classic Cycle on March 07, 2016, 06:58:02 PM
Holes are for ~~machine gun barrels~~ phasers. :wink:

Fixed it for you. :boozing:
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Post by: HardAspie on March 07, 2016, 08:10:38 PM: I'd rise that star bike.
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Post by: Chuck in Indiana on March 08, 2016, 06:42:18 AM: I think it's kool, too. It sure would be a big job to properly save it, though. If I didn't have a huge restoration going on, I'd seriously consider it..
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Post by: twhitaker on March 08, 2016, 07:13:02 AM: Those nacelles are for a tractor beam on one side and a photon torpedo bay on the other.