A Moto Guzzi V7: The Find. That was once the name of a free advertising newspaper. Just like the once famous ViaVia. Victims of the digital revolution.
Yet people continue to make discoveries. And often these are not really spontaneous discoveries, but discoveries via the social network of Real People who exchange knowledge and experiences while enjoying a glass of Belgian or Dutch beer. Just: talking.
Hans Smid is knee deep in the classic Italian world and started talking to someone who had heard something from someone he knew through an acquaintance and who had heard that again ...
All in all, just here in the Netherlands, in the Randstad, Hans found a Moto Guzzi V7 'loop frame' that had been collecting dust for 24 years. Meanwhile, the stories about cleaning his pet Moto Guzzi V7 are getting more and more dramatic.
But look at the result ...