5 The actual first Sammy Miller Bultaco that changed the sport forever

The actual first Sammy Miller Bultaco that changed the sport forever

This all happened around the year 2000 and at this time I thought there was no way that I could go further with it really. At that point I wasn’t going to ask Sammy Miller if I could borrow his log book. I had ages ago in 1996 tried to get an age related number plate and I sent the details off to Sammy Miller but I didn't hear anything back from him for about 6 weeks.

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I thought that they were a little slow so I rang them and spoke with Peter Colin who was a manager there at the time. He said that he would chase Sammy up. He came back to the phone and said that Sammy had been showing a lot of interest in this ….but didn’t say anymore.

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However, he did send back to me the age related element and it showed a date of manufacture as being November 1964. As soon as the internet gave me the opportunity I went to the DVLA website and typed in 669NHO. The website advised me that the date of the registration of this vehicle was November 1964.

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I did know at this stage that as part of Sammy's deal with Bultaco he was given 2 bikes by the factory and he was given £2000. I was under the impression at this time that the bike that I had was probably the sister bike so again I left it at that. I met Sammy at Telford show one year. I asked him if he remembered much about the sister bike that he had. He said that he didn’t and he asked me to send him some photographs. Well I thought that I had done that before and nothing really happened.

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