Honda PC50 Moped for sale

[jonathan_dyane]

My girlfriend bought this little Honda on ebay a few months ago, unfortunately it is more of a project than was hoped so we're looking to move it on.

 

It's obviously been standing for years, and really needs a full strip, clean up, repaint and suchlike. The logbook will need to be applied for.

 

 

There's a couple of Haynes manuals for it too.

 

She wants £100 for it.

 

Cheers,

[e287yba]

My first moped was a Honda PC50 Graduate - just the same as in the pics but substitite Dark Grey for Red to imagine mine. It had been stood for some time, apparently, before my best mate acquired it and put it on the road. But KSP 24G wasn't on the DVLC computer (this was early '87) so it had been off the road a looooooong time then . Reregistered as MVU 914G I then acquired it and - for reasons I couldn't fathom - it needed an MoT.

 

To pass that MoT it needed a plate fitting that said "this vehicle will not exceed 25MPH" to exempt it from some requirements (I can't remember what now [basic vehicle lighting with only a dipped beam at the front, possibly?], but the MoT wasn't passable without this plate)!

 

Rode it like I stole it for 6 weeks, as well as tarting the old girl up in Metallic Grey with White Dulux on the white plastic bits (hey, we've all got to start somewhere ) and then blew the engine somehow one Friday night in Accrington. I managed to nurse the thing back to Bury before it terminally went PHUT! and after leaving it in my mate's cousin's back garden I walked the 3 miles home.

 

My mate knew of a £50 Honda Melody II Deluxe in Red, and - a few days later - that was the end of the 17 year old Graduate . Still didn't stop me getting the bus back to town one Saturday morning a few weeks later to collect the Graduate and pushing it home (uphill all the way, too**). It stayed in the garage at home, then a friend of a friend wanted it as a 'stage prop' amd I never saw it again (this was about 1993).

 

I was still only 16 then; my first vehicle was older than me .

 

 

 

 

**This became a regular occurence with an MZ I owned a few years later, oddly enough...

[eddyramrod]

My PC50, VMB 52E, looked just like that! Shame about the timing, as I'm thinking a "classic" moped would be right handy in Barrow.

[forddeliveryboy]

Jonathan you keep posting stuff I want and don't need! Why not just make it look a bit more like one of these petrol-assisted push-bikes, take the plates off and use it, turning the pedals round as you go? Loads of electrically-assisted bikes around here, don't think anyone would look twic

 

btw does the engine run, or turn over with compression?

[gtd2000]

Hey back in 1979 I briefly co-owned one of these things - it was the dark blue version and from what I remember, asthmatically slow by comparison to anything with an internal combustion engine...

 

I may even have a photograph of it somewhere.

 

Put it on the US eBay and ask for $6000

[Father Ted]

My PC50, VMB 52E, looked just like that! Shame about the timing, as I'm thinking a "classic" moped would be right handy in Barrow.

Im thinking something similar for Preston - Im thinking a Tomos AM30 though....

[eddyramrod]

Ted, I was just thinking that after Autoshite Bacon Butties in April, we might have a Moped day.... but then I thought not. It'll look like Appleby Horse Fair as all these Transits pull up and start disgorging... mopeds!

[oman5]

 

btw does the engine run, or turn over with compression?

 

 

^WHS.

[jonathan_dyane]

Jonathan you keep posting stuff I want and don't need! Why not just make it look a bit more like one of these petrol-assisted push-bikes, take the plates off and use it, turning the pedals round as you go? Loads of electrically-assisted bikes around here, don't think anyone would look twic

 

btw does the engine run, or turn over with compression?

 

I could say the same about much of your tat which I am coveting!

 

Alas it's seized

[purplebargeken]

Nice little PC50!! I've got a 1974 Mobylette AV89 awaiting resto. I'll get round to it eventually.

 

£100 is fair indeed.

 

Ken

[forddeliveryboy]

Jonathan you keep posting stuff I want and don't need! Why not just make it look a bit more like one of these petrol-assisted push-bikes, take the plates off and use it, turning the pedals round as you go? Loads of electrically-assisted bikes around here, don't think anyone would look twic

 

btw does the engine run, or turn over with compression?

 

I could say the same about much of your tat which I am coveting!

 

Alas it's seized

14,000 mile '79 GS, mint? Not sure what we could swap for that... or a 124 300TD, bit scruffy inside (I was going to transfer an interior from an unwanted petrol) and failed its test on a couple of ball joints. Goes well - 40mpg on a run if you keep below 80ish. Would still run it but another turned up with a load of test, doesn't go as well...

[jonathan_dyane]

the Merc would be a most tempting proposition were it not for me not having anywhere to put the thing!

 

By the way, I dunno whether your PM inbox is full; there seem to be a couple of PMs I sent you stuck in the outbox...

[forddeliveryboy]

Sent one, just logged back in.

[Guest]

Is it still for sale, cos I'd be interested, at the right price of course.

[jonathan_dyane]

It's £100.

 

Regards, Jonathan.

[Guest]

Done! And so I should be. Please send contact number and I will phone and sort with you, at your convenience that is.

Best regards, Richard.