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Motorcycle by David Kay Engineering

A private British  super vehicle  collector has the bike for the past 17 years, during which he has displayed it as a work of art in the drawing room of his opulence  home. Finally, he has now taken the decision to put his Ferrari 900 under the hammer. David Kay wrote to Enzo Ferrari’s son Piero, requesting to have permission to build a one-off motorbike sporting the famous Ferrari prancing horse logos, and in May 1990 Kay got the reply he wanted:  the approval to place the Ferrari logo on your motorbike.  It was finished in 1995. The bike, a  Ferrari 900,  which took Kay approximately 75 weeks  to complete, has a 900cc engine producing 105hp, and is capable of 0-60mph in less than 3 second with a top speed of  257kmph . It was built from scratch and features a  scratch built  900cc, transverse, double overhead camshaft, 4 cylinder, 8 valve unit with magnesium and alloy casings, driven through a 5-speed gearbox. The two double ...