NVT Yamaha HL500 basket case

[SON]

For sale, a genuine original HL GMC 500.  $20,000.  Interested parties PM me.

Not meaning to denigrate my friend GMC in any way but??
Genuine original HL GMC 500 ?
Genuine original HL ?
Genuine GMC HL copy ?
Or Genuine Original Torsten Hallman Racing Bengt Aberg Replica ?
If its the US bike recently for sale I think it is worth it.

[SON]

GMC #015??

[GMC]

Hey Geoff

Thats an exceptional example of a farm bike you have there

Yeah, it was just some old thing I had laying around the farm.

I'm with you Tony, afterall Geoff is pretty close to Ned Kelly country [to our American friends, think of Billy the kid...lol.]

Bugger, Daveys onto me. Yes I confess, I have been wandering around the local farms at night stealing their ploughs to forge into HL frames

[HL500]

If I recall Geoff strengthens the frames of his replicas as the originals had a bad habit of breaking. That right Geoff?  So, if I were to buy an original HL whatever that had been rusting over the years I wouldn't have the guts to ride it, not because of the historical value but because I valuse my skin!

[GMC]

The UK built frames suffered most from the square box oil tank that fractures easily.
The swingarm pivot runs through this box and so the oil tank becomes a stressed member of the frame. I made mine from thicker material and also from 4130, I suspect the originals were just sheet metal as it would have been viewed as only an oil tank.

I haven't heard or seen any of the US built Profab / Hallman frames that have needed repairs in this area.