THE LAZARUS PROJECT
Feb 02, 2019
4 minutes
Photos by Neil Adams
I have restored a number of bikes over the years but, having retired and going into pensioner poverty, I was considering selling all my tools. To that end I was at my friend John’s house where he was doing computery things, supposedly selling my tools on Fleebay… but in fact he was looking at restoration projects.
‘What is a Royal Enfield Turbo Twin?’ he asked. ‘A Crusader frame with a 250 Villiers 4T engine,’ said I. ‘Rare, only around 900 made.’
‘It’s got a V5C,’ he said. Worth doing, possibly, if it had an MoT. But it was a basketcase – ie. a money pit. An incomplete basketcase, in
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