AJS & Matchless Owners Club

Hello Guys,
Im just peeking around the door into your G11 room to ask a potentially ridiculous question with a bit of a long winded genuine story behind it.....

.... Here goes...... I have a nightmare on-going 'bitsa' project taken over from my late father, It turns out that we seem to have a G11 Framed G80 and subsequently need a G80 Frame to get the V5.

Where the heck do I start?

Anyone got the opposite problem that we could fix??

Matt Durkin wrote:....... we seem to have a G11 Framed G80 and subsequently need a G80 Frame to get the V5.

Where the heck do I start?

Place an ad on here and in the Jampot?
Try Steve Surbey at AMC Classic Spares
Browse eBay, Old Bike Mart, or an autojumble.
Ride a G11 framed G80...........

If there is no practical difference between the frames, why bother changing? My '54 G80S started life as a G3 but is fully registered by DVLC as a G80 so presumably no problem re-registering your G11/G80 as the latter. Andy

A G11frame or any twin frame will have an extra bracket on the front down tube for the head steady. Year for year , that is the only difference.
Have you got the frame properly dated for the Dvla by the club or are you guessing.

No he is not guessing.

Forgive my ignorance but I know the frame no. details the make but is the model assignation always kept with the frame and therefore on the V5C?

If so has it always been thus as I know of a bike with a 1958 frame, originally a G11 which now houses a much later AJS M31 engine which has a Matchless G12 designation on the V5C or could this have been done in the days when the DVLA were less diligent?

or could this have been done in the days when the DVLA were less diligent.

Yes this was caused by some dating officers ( Not Club ones ) that just used the engine number to date a frame if they were unsure.

It would have been quite in order to change the engine years ago, declaring the change and the logbook altered showing the new engine fitted.