{"id":1875,"date":"2018-06-05T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2018-06-05T19:16:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:16:22","slug":"guzziracer-post-from-instagram-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/guzziracer-post-from-instagram-110\/","title":{"rendered":"GuzziRacer Post from Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#Repost @moto_guzzi_portugal<br \/>\n#mondaymadnessbymotoguzzi Moto Guzzi V11 Scura pelos japoneses da @katsu_motorworks #moto #guzzi #motoguzzi  #guzzilife #guzzista #guzzilifestyle #guzziraceraus<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"#Repost @moto_guzzi_portugal\n#mondaymadnessbymotoguzzi Moto Guzzi V11 Scura pelos japoneses da @katsu_motorworks #moto #guzzi #motoguzzi  #guzzilife #guzzista #guzzilifestyle #guzziraceraus\" src=\"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/33793067_454303801681295_2964179771052785664_n.jpg\" class=\"image\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n<p>#Repost @silodrome<br \/>\nThe great Sonny Angel passed away today at the age of 93.<br \/>\n\ufe0f<br \/>\nSonny travelled to England as a young man and ended up spending two years working in the Vincent Motorcycle Factory in Stevenage. He was part of the team that built the final Vincent in the factory before it closed down, and his connections to British motorcycling wouldn\u2019t end there.<br \/>\n\ufe0f<br \/>\nAfter traveling back to California and opening Sonny Angel Motorcycles, his own dealership, he would take part in countless road races, drag races, off road races, and he went to the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1955, where he would ride his custom Vincent Rapide to a speed of 144.69 mph.<br \/>\n\ufe0f<br \/>\nIn the late 1960s and early 1970s Sonny saw what was happening to the British, Italian, and American motorcycle industries as the glut of cheap Japanese bikes flooded the market. He recognized the importance of the Honda CB750 and realized he could build a faster and better handling competitor for it using little more than a rolling Norton Atlas chassis and the engine from a Hillman Imp.<br \/>\n\ufe0f<br \/>\nThough on the face of it it might seem absurd to put a car engine into a production motorcycle, it was actually remarkably clever. The Hillman Imp engine was closely based on a Coventry Climax unit that had enjoyed some racing successes. It was a lightweight, inline-4 that was cast from aluminum alloy and used water-cooling. It had a single overhead cam rather than the more common pushrods, a displacement of 875cc and 51+ hp depending on the state of tune.<br \/>\n\ufe0f<br \/>\nSonny built a working prototype with his team, but couldn\u2019t get Norton to show any interest in a production model. The company was struggling with low sales and financial problems, but if they\u2019d put Sonny\u2019s Norton-Coventry Climax into production they might have been able to compete more effectively with the Japanese.<br \/>\n\ufe0f<br \/>\n#sonnyangel #norton #hillmanimp #legend #motorcycle #motorbike #rip<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"#Repost @silodrome \nThe great Sonny Angel passed away today at the age of 93.\n\ufe0f\nSonny travelled to England as a young man and ended up spending two years working in the Vincent Motorcycle Factory in Stevenage. He was part of the team that built the final Vincent in the factory before it closed down, and his connections to British motorcycling wouldn\u2019t end there.\n\ufe0f\nAfter traveling back to California and opening Sonny Angel Motorcycles, his own dealership, he would take part in countless road races, drag races, off road races, and he went to the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1955, where he would ride his custom Vincent Rapide to a speed of 144.69 mph.\n\ufe0f\nIn the late 1960s and early 1970s Sonny saw what was happening to the British, Italian, and American motorcycle industries as the glut of cheap Japanese bikes flooded the market. He recognized the importance of the Honda CB750 and realized he could build a faster and better handling competitor for it using little more than a rolling Norton Atlas chassis and the engine from a Hillman Imp.\n\ufe0f\nThough on the face of it it might seem absurd to put a car engine into a production motorcycle, it was actually remarkably clever. The Hillman Imp engine was closely based on a Coventry Climax unit that had enjoyed some racing successes. It was a lightweight, inline-4 that was cast from aluminum alloy and used water-cooling. It had a single overhead cam rather than the more common pushrods, a displacement of 875cc and 51+ hp depending on the state of tune.\n\ufe0f\nSonny built a working prototype with his team, but couldn\u2019t get Norton to show any interest in a production model. The company was struggling with low sales and financial problems, but if they\u2019d put Sonny\u2019s Norton-Coventry Climax into production they might have been able to compete more effectively with the Japanese.\n\ufe0f\n#sonnyangel #norton #hillmanimp #legend #motorcycle #motorbike #rip\" src=\"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/33793607_755217508017530_2317214218597695488_n.jpg\" class=\"image\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Repost @moto_guzzi_portugal #mondaymadnessbymotoguzzi Moto Guzzi V11 Scura pelos japoneses da @katsu_motorworks #moto #guzzi #motoguzzi #guzzilife #guzzista #guzzilifestyle #guzziraceraus #Repost @silodrome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}