HESKETH

"We shall only be assembling a few VORTAN machines for sale"

Hardly surprising. If I'd 20grand to spend on a Hesketh, I sure as shit
wouldn't buy one of those.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

**** me, a Sanglas? Spanish made 500 single? I remember the
Superbike test of that.

 

The bike with "NO SIN" printed on the right-hand switchblock.

 

Champ muttered

That's the Tejón

Very crude it was, but it had a certain Iberian charm about it.
Rattled like a badly screwed together Norton though...

 

Didn't they also do one with an XS400 Yamaha engine as well? Usually/always
in silver?

Regards
Ross

 

Indeed they did.

 

IIRC there was a 750cc version too. I think I might even still have
the Superbike review...

 

Superglue required (for one's fillings) presumably

 

In

Seem to recall that Spain had some sort of protectionist
legislation whereby you could only sell a product in Spain if you
had a factory there. So Yamahas way around it was to supply
engines to Sanglas.

Nissan, General Motors, VW(SEAT) have factories there for the
same reasons. I guess that the Spanish would've had to pull back
on such legislation under EC law though?




--
Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://wrexhamseals.tripod.com

 

That was basically it, at the time, yes. It's why Bultaco and other
brands lasted as long as they did - the Spanish bought them because they
couldn't really buy anything else.

 

Didn't Yamaha eventually acquire Sanglas?
--
Oldbloke

2000 Honda CB500, 1991 Suzuki TS50 (m'boy's)
BOTAFOT #140
"He's like Robbo's chubby kid brother"

 

Yup.