Me on my Dad's Red Hunter at home nr Maidenhead mid 50s.He originally bought it as a sidecar outfit from a Shop in London.The sidecar would be off and on the bike as needed. (I don't remember it but my Dad told many stories of his "old Ariel").It was red and chrome and apparently "it looked brilliant on the exhaust side!".According to DVLA records it may still exist
A few things I remember me Dad telling me:_the "dials" were in the tank...He rode over to Woodcote to see his Gran with his Dad and his younger brother squeezed in the single-seat sidecar and his other brother on the back....he once picked a Piano up for his Mum (my Gran) on the sidecar chassis but "stupidly drove through the Ford at Twyford and wrecked it" ....the piano not the bike! 1.my Dad told me he'd take the Ariel into the front room if he had to repair it for work the next day,as although he had a shed,there was no electricity and he could light the gas lamp.2.I just have ONE memory of him in the kitchen with the chain-case cutting a gasket from a cornflake box.3.he'd clearly never heard of health and safety,nor did he care about his or ours.One day when on nights and me Mum at work he took the carb off to clean tipping the petrol from the float bowl in the sink.As he stripped it he said he was trying to remember not to throw the fag he was finishing off in the sink too,but he did and the resulting fire set the curtains alight and in a panic he went outside and ran in with a shovel full of earth and threw it at the sink and window.When me mum came in she wanted to know where the curtains had gone and why there was earth and worms on the window sill.3.when a bit older he took me in the shed one day and told me to hold a wire in each hand from something he had in the vice.He then gave this thing a spin and asked if I felt anything.I said yes (a shock!) and he replied "well that works"....He told me years later he was testing a magneto!

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