Sunday 13 February 2011

One for the POC

This pile of bits below is a Panther. Other than being a 1950's big sloper built in Cleckheaton I know little about it. Mark has re-sprayed most of it, had the engine re-built and bought new wheel rims ready to be spoked up.

A Close up of the Engine

I am hoping the folk at the POC can help me identify model.
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4 comments:

  1. Gresh13 February 2011 at 20:20

    FB Posting from Woody.

    Marks panther is a M120 As to a price I paid £1600 for two thirds of an M100 a year ago mine is a little older but not much rarer.

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  2. Gresh13 February 2011 at 20:21

    FB Posting from Ian Mumford

    Hi everyone, this bike was bought by mark about four years ago. It was an original outfit, though the chair had been reduced to a chassis. Someone bought that as Mark wanted to turn it into a solo. He spent the following year dismantling it in my basement. By then he had bought the house in golcar so the parts which had been dismantled refurbished were then taken to his basement to be rebuilt, the bike is complete, other than the wheels which we cut the rims off (the spokes and rims were in a sorry state) Mark was intending to have the wheels rebuilt on the original hubs, after the brakes had been skimmed, mark was doing a very through job with this, everything as far as I know was done, other than the wheels and the final reassembly. If anyone wants them i have a whole load of photos of the bike in its original state, which mark asked me to take to assess its condition.
    ianmumford@ymail.com

    I think its google based system does not like the fact i have a ymail account! If you need help some time let me know and i can pop down

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  3. loveless13 February 2011 at 20:33

    gresh, i'm following the blog open mouthed at mark's collection, i find it fascinating that he collected such a wide range of such interesting machines and that he was totally 'underground', most people wouldn't understand the appeal of this sort of bikes in today's world, i really hope that the bikes are going to genuine people who are going to use them, i love the panther, cleckheaton's best ever motorcycle!, respect due.

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  4. Gresh14 February 2011 at 22:24

    Thanks for the comments Loveless. Posts like these show that the blog is reaching its objective. Most people only heard about or saw a small fraction of Mark's collection. Down the pub we would hear all that he bought but even we lost track and 28 motorcycles was a surprise.

    In his position as MZRC Classics officer he took the underground nature of MZ's and East European motorcycles a stage further popularising the more obscure MZ derivatives and other manufacturers. Though it would have been much hard without eBay. That said he was always proud of Cleckheaton's motorcycle manufacturing heritage. He had owned two 250 Panthers but it was the big sloper he really wanted. Unfortunately too many other project bikes were in the way plus the mundane of keeping his four main bikes on the road.

    Needless to say despite the East European nature of the collection the M120 is now by far the most popular viewed motorcycle on the site.

    Thanks again for your post.

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