Katana Owners Club U.K.

Yep Paul ....but he wasn't at the revivication ...he'd disappeared by then...
Along with the codes for the original website/forum and domain name.
One day he just dropped off the radar, occasionally his name pops up on FB posts about push bikes or C90's ...but again it's been awhile.

He did have a coupl'a Kats a resin corse , then he bought a black rat thing with chopped this n that leaked like a rat should etc. Did a few jaunts with us including west coast of Scotland and wusseykats, then one day he'd had enough of his job as a van courier and stuff as his health was suffering , So he sold his Kats and other bikes, he took up cycling and got involved in that.
As said hear about him from time to time .
His main passion at the time was photography.

yeah he got into honda step thu's and then pushbikes. looking at his history online i think kats were just a fad, before kats it was vauxhall magnums and vivas, then after, cubs, and later still pushbikes. im sure he's still about somewhere. probably running someones webpage and forum as their keenest member untill he discovers his next passion for penny farthings or austin allegros.......

I had the magnum without the 2.3L engine , or the sloping coupe rear of the Firenze ...A Viva !1256 cc wonder.

Why would anyone buy a fookin Vauxhall anyway?

To be honest it was an okay car ...a load of us had them in the Sqn so we swapped panels and bits for MOT''s , them swapped 'em back...
Also useful addition was 1 key fitted all so we could just borrow each other's motors.

Fred61 and I had access to a string of Bedford’s version of the Viva. The HA van also known as the “Box Viva”
They were generally thrashed and overloaded to the end of their existence..

... that way back in the dim and distant past. So very nearly in the year....

I learnt to drive (illegally) at 14/15 in my mums works Viva van when her and dad went out on Saturdays to relatives and the pub
Excellent tool for bird pulling at the chippy and loadsa room in the back for “exercise”

Scottish & Newcastle breweries gave me a Viva as a company car in late '74. I left in 75.................