Description
This is Lot 496 in the Bonhams Spring Stafford Sale on April 20 & 21, please see the Bonhams website for full details.
This BSA C15 Scrambler was used for the Belstaff cLothing photo-shoot starring David Beckham (see copies of photographs on file). This production model was based on the works bikes ridden by Jeff Smith and Arthur Lampkin, who were placed 3rd and 2nd respectively in the 1961 European 250 Motocross Championship and 2nd and 3rd respectively in 1962. The C15 was purchased new from Lee & Covells of Ely, Cambridgeshire for £210 18s by a farmer, to ride around his fields at harvest time. He used it for a short period only, then it spent the next 25 years covered up in the farmer's barn. Around 1992, the farmer sold it to a friend, Alan Mills, who used it only for display at local Cambridgeshire shows. John Marchant purchased the BSA online in 2010. It remains in original condition, as sent out by the factory. All chrome, alloy are paintwork are factory original, and even the tyres are 1963 Dunlops. John has fitted electronic ignition, as the original energy transfer system was inadequate even when it was new, let alone decades later. The only other change is a folding right footrest, to allow for a short kickstart lever (changed in 1964 by Lee & Covells). The machine is offered with a file containing mainly photocopied literature.
This machine has been stored in dry conditions and has seen little or no use since 2016. Accordingly, it is sold strictly as viewed and may require varying degrees of recommissioning and/ or restoration prior to further use.
