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CHAPTER
ONE - 4
After a slow careful
trip back to Sherbourne we arrived at the garage where Chris keeps his
M66 outfit, better known as ‘Boris’. It didn’t take us long to unload
the Jawa into the garage, but now he will have a bit of sorting out to
do as his garage is about the same size as mine, medium to small. When
the outfits are in, there is not a lot of room left.
Driving back we were
trying to think of a name for the Jawa, but not knowing any
Czechoslovakian we couldn’t think of any appropriate names, well not
clean ones anyway, apart the one name that always used to come to mind
to so many 2-stroke owners, especially in winter and that is “B - - - -
- d” short for “Start yer b - - - - - d”. Hopefully this will not cause
offence any 2-stroke owners who whole heartily reject such names, but I
refer to my early memories when I owned an Aerial Leader, sorry, Aerial
Pollution.
I have now had a
chance to look at the M66 carefully and have discovered that not only
has the engine in the motorcycle been restored, but also when all the
parts had been unwrapped there is a brand new M66 engine there, with the
parts in various stages of disassembly. The crankcase still has the con
rod supporting plates bolted on. Nearly everything is there to make two
complete engines with just the carbs missing from the new engine.
There are signs that
the gent who owned it had a problem at some stage during its early life,
as there are several seized bearings and graunched gears sitting in old
greased boxes along with old split pins, rounded nuts, bolts that have
been cross-threaded as well as old washers, etc. |
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