Heinkel Tourist 103 A2

So, this week I bought an old Heinkel Tourist 103 A2 for restoration.
It cost about £250. Most of parts are there, but it needs completely stripped and rebuilt. It does however have registration documents, and with a minimum of fuss should be able to get back on the road as soon as it is repaired.
As such, all other Lambretta restoration has been put on hold (well, I will finish Lilly's dl, and I have to do a little sprucing up of 'Betty' for the summer, but the other 2 rustbuckets are getting moved to the back of the garage!).
Heinkel Tourists are the Rolls Royce of scooters...they have a 4-stroke, 175cc engine, and are known as 'motorbikes in disguise'. The handling and roadholding are said to be in a different league to that of Vespas and Lambrettas, and the styling has a distinct 'Flash Gordon' touch.



They were manufactured in Germany from 1953 up until 1965 by Ernst Heinkel, the founder of the company who also designed and produced some of the most memorable aircraft of WW2. After the war, Heinkel were banned from producing aircraft, and so turned to smaller affordable forms of transport, such as the scooter and bubblecar.
They are cool!!!!!
I think they look a bit like a Dalek front the front...
They also look quite funny when you remove all the body parts, as you can see.
There aren't that many left around, but the Heinkel-Club Deutschland is so well organised that they ensured they bought all of the remaining spare parts for these machines, so that worldwide club members are able to purchase anything they need to repair or restore their vehicles from the club shop. I can't wait to get out there and climb those mountains like the smiling German couple below...but I might have to take the scooter home to Germany first to try that :o)