:smile2: Back in 1982, I splashed out on a brand new 1100 Katana. I kept it for 4 years and covered 40,000 miles on it. It was reliable, but very heavy and bloody hard work to ride quickly. The riding position contributed handsomely to the myriad aches and pains which plague me to this day! The engine and gearbox were superb and the styling was, at the time, pretty stunning. I traded it in for a Laverda Jota, but that's another story!
Ahha that looks like a Lotus Cortina , not just any Cortina . And on the original posting I'd prefer a 400 Katana , extremely good handling , with my wife on the pillion seat one day we gave a 916 a run , he went down two gears leaving a 30 limit to dust us off .
:grin2: The car is indeed an early Lotus Cortina,and they are currently fetching £50,000!!! Who would have thought it! A pity Katana's aren't fetching the same stratospheric sums. I got two grand for mine when I traded it in!
I bought one of the original Katana 999cc here in the states to race AMA Superbike. That was my intention after 7 years of AMA enduros/hare scrambles. Sold it to make a down payment on a house. At the time had a friend at the local Suzuki dealer.
We went down to Atlanta to pick it up with some other bikes on a Friday afternoon.
Helped put it together over the weekend and bought it Monday morning. Nice bike for its day.
Race a Formula Ford with a Kent 1600, too, way back when. That was after I decided a rollbar made more sense that depending on a cowskin to protect me.
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