1972 Remembering the Moto Guzzi V8 - 5-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article for Sale

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1972 Remembering the Moto Guzzi V8 - 5-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article
Original, Vintage Magazine articlePage Size: Approx. 8\" x 11\" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: Good
• The machine was complex, thename simple. The V8. Motorcy-cling plays at numbers; there havebeen singles, twins, triples, fours,fives and sixes. But in the num-bers game, eight is zenith. The V8.Those five characters label onething, and one thing only: MotoGuzzi’s 500cc, four-stroke, water-cooled, twin double-overheadcamshaft, 12000-rpm roadracingV8, which mounted eight carbu-retors, eight ignition coils andeight exhaust pipes, and whichbristled with oil lines, water pipes,hoses and ignition wires. Con-ceived in 1954 and raced through1957, the V8 —Moto Guzzi be-lieved—would break the Gileragrip on the 500 World Cham-pionship, shove aside MV Agusta,the pretender to the crown, andestablish Guzzi hegemony in the500 Grand Prix classics. But be-fore the V8’s imposing technologycould finally shape and controlrace results, Moto Guzzi with-drew from international racing,and the V8 passed into legend.Bill Lomas remembers. Herode the V8. Lomas, twice 350...14006-AL-7203-04