Quasar & Hesketh @ Stafford, 2005

The sale of Andy Tribble's Ecomobile at the Bonhams auction (in October 2017) has prompted me to dig out this photo of my Quasar the day I bought it at Bonhams' Stafford auction in the Spring of 2005. The other chap had just bought the Hesketh in the photo. It's a rare shot of a pair of all-British motorcycles from the same era – the late 70s to early 80s.
(Ironically I had known the Quasar's previous owner, Mo Simpson, for nearly 20 years; he had kindly let me ride his Quasar around the TT circuit, first in 1986 and again in 1998 and if I'd bought the Quasar off him privately we would both have been about £1,000 better off!) PNB

Quasar & Hesketh @ Stafford, 2005