Tags three-cylinder

Purchasing classics there

An 1000 SP instead of a DS

AMK 1 tells the unlikely story of an AMK reader who was looking for a DS and came home with a 1000 SP. About 1000 SP is a rare Auto Union. A pure sports car with a 3-cylinder two-stroke engine…

180 or 120 Degrees? The Laverda triples

A Laverda 1000 three-cylinder engine does not yet reach 100 hp, but - at least according to the owner of the copy we photographed for AMK 12 - it is also too fast for the Netherlands. Within Laverda circles there is a mild battle between the owners of machines with the crank pins at 180 degrees and those with crank pins at 120 degrees. Yet this beautiful Executioner from Breganze represents a magnificent piece of motorcycle history where the people of Laverda bought a lot of stuff abroad because the Italian suppliers did not think the quality was good enough and because no agreements could be made with them...