1977 Moto Morini 350 Strada

Lovely bike - there was one on the Bournemouth DGR

 

Nice
I had a 3 1/2 sport when I was 17 as my dad wouldn't sign the finance for a 350 LC
If I had the money I would love to buy it back
Sad but I still remember the reg PKL 436W

 

Chap I know has one of these, nice little bike if you look after them.

Dam site cheaper than a RD/lc as well.

 

That's going to cost a packet to ship it out there.

 

The thing about a European bike like this is that in Aussie and NZ the import duty back in the day on these bikes was something like 25% which put the price of these bikes out of most of the average bikers reach, hence forth there is not a great deal of these bikes over there and the price for something like this is a heck of a lot higher.

I have seen T300 Daytona's ( not including the Super III) go for anything up to NZ $10000 which is around £4500. At the end of the day the less of something there is the more it is worth.

 

PKL 436W was my first of five Morinis. I was the second owner - I bought it in 1982 from Jack Lilley in Shepperton I used it for 2-3 years before it had an alternator problem (which i would be able to fix now!) so it went back to Jack Lilley in the back of my Morris Minor van! I'm glad it had more use - they are great bikes, able to keep up with much larger machines - had a great 'race' once with a Ferrari Dino on my Morini 500 (which is not as nice as the s 1/2).