Description
H&H Classic Auction @ National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands
30th Oct, 2024 11:00
1960 Puch Cheetah
Original condition showing just 2, 745 miles
Estimate
£1, 200 - £1, 800
Registration No: VTP 315
Frame No: 7601540
MOT: Exempt
Presented in original and unrestored condition
Showing a credible mileage of just 2745 miles
Run and ridden recently, supplied with a V5C
Puch was founded in 1899 by the industrialist Johann Puch in Graz, Austria and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles eventually becoming a subsidiary of the large Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglomerate. From the outset, Puch enjoyed an excellent reputation for its high standard of design, build and reliability, important features on the roads around Europe at the time. Mainly concentrating on small two-stroke engined scooters and go to work vehicles, in the early 1960s they launched the 60cc Cheetah as a De-Luxe model featuring a solid heavy-duty pressed steel frame and legshields. The Cheetah was always a rare model in the UK due to its relatively high purchase price, in 1960 the upmarket 59cc Cheetah ‘Scooterette’ sold for £99 17/- 6d, as much as the bigger capacity and more popular offerings from Vespa and Lambretta.
This Cheetah is offered in original and un-restored condition showing a credible 2, 745 miles to the speedo. It looks to have been in the UK since its first registration on 19th August 1960, supplied by John Fisher Motorcycles in Portsmouth according to the dealer transfers still showing on the headlamp casing and rear mudguard. Run and ridden recently by the vendor it comes supplied with a current V5C.
