Is my Beesa still alive?

[Bigron]

Good evening gents (and ladies?): because of the enforced idleness due to Covid 19, I got to thinking of past joys, and wondering if my old Golden Flash was still alive.
First registered in 1951 as SVX754, it had a sidecar attached when I bought it in 1964 and sold it in part ex for a Panther M120 to George Clarke's Motors in Brixton.
The DVLA website is of no use, saying that it has yet to have its first MOT - rubbish, because I had it tested twice myself in London!
I'd love to know that it is still alive and well can anyone help, please?

Ron.

[a10 gf]

Welcome, can't help with the research, but do you happen to have some old photos to post here?

[RichardL]

Welcome to the forum. 

Engine and/or frame numbers plus £5 to the BSAOC might find it. If you found it, would you be trying to buy it back? Now THAT would be some dedication.

Richard L.

[muskrat]

G'day Bigron, welcome.
Best of luck with your hunt.
Buying another would bring the memories flooding back even if it's not the exact bike.
Cheers

[Sav]

DVLA site seems perfectly clear to me;

No tax since 1985 and no results found for MOT, gone to the great scrapheap in the sky unless it is unfound in a barn somewhere

[bikerjohndavies]

Yes, as Sav said, DVLA site shows it has not been taxed since December 1985 and the MOT section only shows from when MOT's were computerised 20 years or so ago so no record. The one other interesting point is the last line that shows when the last V5C was issued which says:-

Date of last V5C (logbook) issued   7 March 1997

So maybe in somebody's shed waiting.

[Swarfcut]

ron...Enforced idleness means I'm taking too active an interest in this Forum........

 The fact that the bike is still on the system with a "modern" V5C means there is a good chance the number is still with the bike, but if it has been transferred, then that vehicle is not in use in the UK.

 Funny how the cowboy clampers  get the keeper's address pronto, so there are sources and ways of at least finding last known whereabouts.

 Good luck, be nice to find it again.

 Swarfy.

[Greybeard]

 

[Angus]

Thanks Swarfcut, I have been checking the status of the A7SS (SBT 788) in the super profile book my A10 is in and was concerned as it has not been taxed since Oct 85, one year after the book was published. But I now see that the last V5C was issued on 22 Feb 2012 which means it may well still be about somewhere.

[Bigron]

I am humbled by the number of kind and encouraging responses to my simple enquiry. Thank you.
The more I think about it, the more I realise that I WOULD love to get my old bike back: it was my very first bike, and you know how your first time for anything stays with you! If it still exists, I hope it still has the sidecar. As a learner, I was allowed to take a passenger in the sidecar (my girlfriend!) and it was fun to ride/drive - apart from the first time that I took a left hand corner at any speed.....nobody told me what would happen to the chair!
Marks and Spencers had a new emergency customer!!!

Ron.

[RichardL]

...I was allowed to take a passenger in the sidecar (my girlfriend!) and it was fun to ride/drive...

I assume, here, you are referring to the A7SS with sidecar.

Richard L.

(Treading lightly because you did not say she is now your wife. Here, referring to the girlfriend.)