After many months hard work, Brian Mayes finally concluded a long and painstaking restoration of the GM depicted below and such was the qaulity of his work, we decided it more than merited exhibiting on these pages.

In a summary of his work, Brian tells us:

The machine was a wreck when I bought it from a grass-tracker in Droitwich, but I have traced the GM (LT) engine number through Trevor Hedge and it had been purchased new by David Walsh.

One mudgaurd was marked "Paul Bentley" and the framw/handlebar covers carried the name of Paul's sponsor, a local oil company and Renault agent, so the Godden frame was most likely to have been Paul's.

The bike has original Dunlop wheel rims (these are no longer made) and I found an original unused saddle in a box at RTN racing in Ipswich. The original saddle was totally beyond resuscitation. Tommy Nicholls also helped with the respoking. I couldn't save the original Dunlop speedway tyre.

All metal has been polishe and/or chromed by Heritage Chroming of Marks tey. I managed to take the whole machine apart and reassembled it spreading the work over 18 months when time allowed. I learnt many restoration tricks and am an artist with metholated spirits, emery paper and a toothbrush.

Silkolene sent me some transfers and their products saved the clutch cable. The engine is a runner.

The machine represents a speedway bike stopped in time of the early eighties when of course the GM (LT) was a World Championship engine.