1982 Jota

So with Ducracers input it's narrowed to just 100 engines - anyone with an engine between 8308 and 8408 able to chip in?

Nick :-)
 
Back to the OP's numbers. That frame number is off the ID plate mounted on the left side, by the foot rest plate. US VIN tags will start with letters.

3CL Frame tag by Ed Lutz, on Flickr

I first thought he was talking about a US market Series 2 Jota, but I think the engine number is too low. In the US we got Series 2 180's at least through 1982, maybe '83. We didn't get any 120 Jota's at all. My Series 2 Jota is tagged (on the US VIN tag) as a 1981 model but was sold new in '82 as a '82 model year bike. It's number is 8030.

I have a sort of related question. Can anyone tell me what year a Series 2 1200 motor, number 3613 was made?
 
Spondonrider said:
I have a sort of related question. Can anyone tell me what year a Series 2 1200 motor, number 3613 was made?
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According to Laverdamania it is a 1983 model, so a late one and maybe one of the last 180s ever produced.

http://www.laverdamania.net/registre1200.htm
 
Nick said:
Down to a bandwidth of just 85 engines...

Nick :-)
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Yes! Until someone puts a spanner in the works and comes up with an contrary engine number outside the sequence, which wouldnt be a huge surprise with Laverda.

You could imagine on the day the first new casing batch went through to the guy with the stamp that they didnt get onto the bench in the right order, for example!
 
My 120 Jota is a very early bike number 8149 and it has that bump as discussed you would have thought the earliest bikes would have followed on from the S2 180 Jota's/ 3CLs with no bump???
This bike also has an unusual upper fairing support with 4 bolts holding it on.
 
blab said:
I reckon Laverda should have continued making the 120 Jota along side the rgs, would have cost them zero and retained a bit of variety in the range.
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I think the reason was that the RGS was designed to meet the reduced noise requirement, hence the tank covering the cam cover, cam cover with less free space etc.
Also I think the factory was trying to move the brand into a different area than previously.
Massimo had big hopes for RGS sales but I heard he was disappointed when folk didn't flock to buy them.
Personally speaking, at the time I was not happy with that direction, softening off the harder edged 180s and 120 Jota, and I guess the market wasn't ready for it.
Plus the world woke up to the dawn of a new era when the GPz900R was released.

I rate my 120 Jota as one of my all time favourite Laverdas I have owned and ridden.
 
Grant said:
According to Laverdamania it is a 1983 model, so a late one and maybe one of the last 180s ever produced.

http://www.laverdamania.net/registre1200.htm
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Thanks Grant. I forgot all about the Laverdamania registry...

Very late number yeah, and I was told the motor came from a TS.
 
Hmmm bit of a bugger that Maurice's Jota has a bump...however...isn't Maurice's Jota the bike owned from new by Andy B'? Simon's spare motor is from a crashed Swiss import (if that was Dean's old bike) so what might be true is that all genuine UK 120 Jota's have a bump because they are part of a batch. We'll only know this is true if someone has a genuine UK 120 Jota without a bump. On the production front would you stamp the frame and then at a later time stamp the engine?

The other thoughts I have is does anyone have a genuine 'no bump' RGS? Also does anyone have a genuine 'bump' 1200 - if these were produced as late as '83 surely these engines could've ended up as either a Series 2 180 or a 120?

From now on I will check for and record bumps...perhaps the last 'non bump' is a 1200.

Nick :-)
 
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