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Riff Raff
3rd May 2006, 08:01
Only 99 to be made.

http://www.mvagusta-sp.com/f41000veltroen.html
James Deuce
3rd May 2006, 08:08
Mmmmmmmm, Nice.

See attached the last Italian "Veltro" (Means "Greyhound" btw).
Jonty
3rd May 2006, 08:29
Very nice - BTW anyone here own that Tamborini sitting in Sawyers last week :gob:
Riff Raff
3rd May 2006, 08:32
Thanks Jim2, now I understand the significance of this picture on the site
limbimtimwim
3rd May 2006, 09:28
They've made so many 'specials', surely they devalue the other specials, and it is getting kinda tedious.

However, it is sex and I want one.
Jonty
3rd May 2006, 09:44
However, it is sex and I want one.

Sex or the bike?:nya:
Paul in NZ
3rd May 2006, 09:46
Anyone that buys a 'limited edition' italian vehicle knows exactly what they are getting... ie - if they sell a lot of them it won't be that limited, it's really just a paint job on an old model, it won't be worth much more than the standard one in 5 years, it will cost a motza to insure, there won't be any parts, it will devalue if you use it etc etc.

Fun way to spend money though.....
limbimtimwim
3rd May 2006, 09:54
it's really just a paint job on an old modelActually, that one seems to be quite similar to the Mamba they made. That one seems to have lots of carbon fibre and the varible length intake tracts.

So really it's another Mamba, which was a parts bin special :)

I guess MVA want to do superbikes...?
Mental Trousers
3rd May 2006, 10:01
Sex or the bike?:nya:

Probably sex WITH the bike.

I would've thought they'd make more road going specials though rather than race ones. Haven't the last couple (other than the Tamborini) been race bikes only??
limbimtimwim
3rd May 2006, 10:10
would've thought they'd make more road going specials though rather than race ones. Haven't the last couple (other than the Tamborini) been race bikes only??Website seems to indicate two versions, a 'strada/road' and a 'pista/track'.
Mental Trousers
3rd May 2006, 10:18
Website seems to indicate two versions, a 'strada/road' and a 'pista/track'.

Ah so there is. The problem with skimming web pages while at work without anyone seeing.
R6_kid
3rd May 2006, 10:19
i think i just... i want... mmm....

wait til N4CR see's this though he probably wont post because his hands will be elsewhere.
Sniper
3rd May 2006, 10:45
God thats nice. If only I had the money and celebrity status
WRT
3rd May 2006, 10:57
· 185 hp - dry weight 159 kg. - max speed 307 km/h

Says it all really. Can you get it without that stylised greyhound on the side?
MD
3rd May 2006, 20:47
Very nice - BTW anyone here own that Tamborini sitting in Sawyers last week :gob:
Take a close look. The owner's name is engraved on the headstock - done at the factory! that's better than a personalised plate!
gav
3rd May 2006, 21:36
Take a close look. The owner's name is engraved on the headstock - done at the factory! that's better than a personalised plate!
So if you buy a S/H one, its going to have some other pillocks name on it! Great for resale value, huh!
MD
3rd May 2006, 21:58
So if you buy a S/H one, its going to have some other pillocks name on it! Great for resale value, huh!
Yeah I thought of that as well. But the flipside, what if the first owner was named, for example Carl Fogarty (the Carl from say Ekatahuna , not the UK!) then the resale would be boosted up. Arnie was declined a Tamborini because the engraver couldn't spell long Austrian names and the headstock wasn't wide enough anyway.
Marknz
3rd May 2006, 22:33
Luverly :sunny:

Now where is that old sock :blah:
N4CR
3rd May 2006, 23:20
i think i just... i want... mmm....

wait til N4CR see's this though he probably wont post because his hands will be elsewhere.

DSGHJ SDFSD SDDS DD!!@123123 fdsdf dsf d! aafd! askld akadskl!!!!!!!11!11111!! :nono: :doobey: :first:
Buster
3rd May 2006, 23:39
Thats a bloody sexy bike. Dreams are free... I will never afford one.
MD
4th May 2006, 07:53
Isnt that a rebadged fw190 or me109?
Is it just me or do others find it creepy that some of us actually know this kind of stuff! I guess people on Plane websites might find it creepy that there are other sites where people know what a cg125 is or a ZXthis and that is. Jim2 and Dynamytus must spend far too much time reading encyclopedias
James Deuce
4th May 2006, 08:02
Isnt that a rebadged fw190 or me109?

Nope. It's a Macchi (original name for the Aermacchi aerospace company) C.205 "Veltro". The only German things about it are the license built Daimler Benz DB605 engine and redesigned 20mm MG FF cannons. Longer barrels and higher rate of fire than the German original. It gave US P38Js and Spit IXs (the US used Spit Vs and IXs in the Mediterranean Theatre fairly extensively) absolute fits in 1943, just prior to the Italian armistice. It was a development of the DB601 engined Macchi C.202.