I've had a chat with Dave Boydstun from AMS Racing in Arizona about the Hindall DT1 in my earlier post and he informed me that he's just picked up
another Hindall DT1 which if our information is correct, between he and I we've got half of Harry Hindall's full production run of DT1 frames. The new bike has a 1972 build date, as does his other so my 1970 model seems to be pretty early. My flat tracker Hindall , which started life as a Kawasaki 350 Bighorn version also has a 1972 build date. The late Bob Neilson was a bit of an expert in Hindalls and he reckoned that my bike was #1 DT1 frame but with Harry dead it's hard to authenticate that. Harry's numbering system is pretty interesting. Being a one man operation, Harry only made one frame per day so rather than number them in unison he stamped them with the date they were made. My bikes number reads
HH 101870 which translates as October 18 1970 while Dave's bike reads
HH 061072= June 10 1972 and my RT1 flat track Hindall is
HH 072572 which would have it made on July 25 1972. The system's as unique as Harry was himself.
Here's the newest of Dave Boydstun's Hindall duo.
http://amsracing.com/product/1040 This one has all of the great period DT1 holy grail bits such as the unobtainable Jones clutch cover and seems to have been built using much of the stuff used in the Cycle Guide Larry Watkins Champion framed bike. The Don Jones touch is everywhere if you check the parts list
(Maico rear wheel for instance).
How rare is this little gem? 
