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1962 BSA Rocket Gold Star, 650 cc For Sale by Auction
Registration number KTX355.
Frame number GA10 186.
Engine number originally DA10R 7345, now DA10 2709 (see text).
Widely recognised as one of the most desirable of all factory built 'café racers', the Rocket Gold Star arrived in 1962 along with the first of BSA's new unitary construction range. A combination of Gold Star parts and the A10 Super Rocket 650cc twin-cylinder engine, this represented the last of the old 'pre-unit' line rather than a new departure and thus were destined to be built for eighteen months. The idea of making what was effectively a twin-cylinder Goldie originated with Banbury motorcycle dealer Eddie Dow, who had built up a considerable body of expertise in looking after BSA's high-performance single cylinder machines. Dow believed that his hybrid would bridge the gap between the end of Gold Star production and the introduction of new unitary construction sports models, and so it proved. The Super Rocket engine's compression ratio was raised to 9. 25:1 for the RGS and claimed maximum power increasing to 46bhp. But for some reason best known to BSA, the RGS frame was unique, although not that different from the production A7/ A10 item, as was the wider dual seat. The model was offered in a number of different forms and with a host of options relating to controls and equipment. Motor Cycle tested a Rocket Gold Star in November 1962, summing up the new BSA as a 'scintillating high-performance road burner: good brakes, excellent rider comfort and docile traffic manners.' A top speed of 105mph was achieved. Around 1, 800 Rocket Gold Stars were made over an eighteen month period and today genuine examples are highly sought after.
KTX has had an interesting life, she was dispatched from the factory on consignment note 84509 to C. Jackson of Redditch on the 29th May 1962; a week later on the 8th June it was sent back to the factory, presumably a deal fell through. It was then dispatched on the same day to H. F. Temple, St. Thomas Street, Oxford on consignment 85089. At this time it had engine number DA10R 7345 fitted.
On the 17th July 1971 it was abandoned near Silverstone following the Grand Prix; incidentally the 68-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver Jackie Stewart after he started from the second position. Ronnie Peterson was second for the March team and Lotus driver Emerson Fittipaldi came in third.
The Northamptonshire police recovered and stored it before selling the remains to P. C. Antony Jackson of Northampton on the 9th August who applied to DVLA for a new log book as none was available. As was policy at the time it was re-registered in August 1971 with an age related number (although this was in fact from a 1951 BSA 650). Jackson replaced the damaged engine with the one currently fitted DA10 2709.
He subsequently sold her to Julian Davis of Northampton on the 31st of August who kept her until July 1978 when he sold her to Glyn Sayer again of Northampton. Several owners, all in Northampton followed, Chris Watts and M. Grimbley, both 1981 and Alan Mason in March 1987. Our vendor bought her from Mason in February 2010. Little used she is now being offered for sale and will need a gentle recommissioning.
Sold with the V5C, duplicate V. E. 60, various booklets, an RRT 2 gearbox (a standard box is currently fitted) and a crankcase stamped DA10R 3212.
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