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Brough Superior Motorcycle VIN Check

Enter a Brough Superior VIN to read its model year, model, engine and specs. The lamps check the format as you type.

  • 17 characters
  • No I, O or Q
  • Check digit

Brough Superior

BRAND DATA
Models
3 models listed below
Check digit
North American, position 9
VIN location
Steering neckPlus a sticker on the frame

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01About

About Brough Superior

George Brough manufactured motorcycles and cars using the Brough Superior signature, from 1919 to 1940. All of the 3048 machines built were also called the "Comes-Royce of Motorcycles". T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") possessed seven bikes and died while crashes one and George Bernard Shaw was another celebrity "for eachutteranceh with Brough items.

Brough Superior motorcycles will always be rare, costly and liked by lots of celebs, still being preferred by lots of motorcycle enthusiasts. In 2007, prices ranged from $40,000 to greater than $3,000,000 USD for this type of bike.

If there is any possibility that the motorcycle could fail the exam, it had been reclaimed towards the shop, so, due to this status of perfection and due to our prime cost, they were similar to the Comes-Royce cars.

In 1940, George stopped motorcycle manufacture and centered on creating aircraft components. He ongoing building precision engineer's tools and Brough Superior parts for several years before his dying in 1969.

George Brough put his signature on cars too, making 85 automobiles between 1935 and 1939. The first used a 114 Hewlett Packard, 4168cc side valve, straight 8 engine and may "fly" with 90 mph.Then it had beenn just a little sister with simply 107 HewlettPackardd. The final person in this family was the XII, run by a Lincoln subsequently-Zephyr V12 engine of 4387 cc, born in 1938.

02Models

Brough Superior models

The Brough Superior models on file. Every one carries a 17-character VIN that the decoder reads.

  • SS80
  • SS100
  • SS680
03Location
A motorcycle from the side: the VIN is stamped on the steering neck, the frame tube at the top of the forks (01), and a VIN sticker sits on the frame near the engine (02).01 NECK02 FRAME

Where to find a Brough Superior VIN

  1. Steering neckStamped into the frame tube the forks turn in. Turn the bars to one side to see it.
  2. Frame stickerA VIN sticker or plate on the frame, often on the down tube or near the engine mounts. The engine number on the cases is not the VIN.
  3. PaperworkTitle, registration and insurance card all carry the full VIN.
04Breakdown

How a Brough Superior VIN breaks down

Every motorcycle VIN since 1981 has the same 17 positions. A VIN never uses I, O or Q.

Brough Superior VIN · position by position? = check digit · # = serial
1–3 · WMIMaker & countryMaker & country
4–8 · VDSModel, body, engineModel, engine
9CheckCalc.
10YearYear code
11PlantFactory
12–17 · SerialUnique to this vehicleSerial number
WMI · 1–3The maker and the country it built the motorcycle in.
VDS · 4–8Model, body and engine. The decoder turns these into specs.
CHECK · 9Worked out from the other 16 characters. A typo breaks it.
YEAR · 10A letter or digit; the code repeats every 30 years, so C is 1982 or 2012.
PLANT · 11The factory that assembled the motorcycle.
SERIAL · 12–17Unique to each vehicle.
05API

Decode Brough Superior VINs in your app

  • 22 fields per decode: year, model, trim, engine, and more
  • Salvage checks and US plate lookups on the same key
  • BASIC $0, PRO $69, ULTRA $99 a month, billed by RapidAPI
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GET/v2.0/decode_vin
import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com/v2.0/decode_vin",
    params={"vin": "<Brough Superior VIN>"},
    headers={
        "X-RapidAPI-Key": os.environ["RAPIDAPI_KEY"],
        "X-RapidAPI-Host": "vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com",
    },
    timeout=10,
)
spec = r.json()["specification"]
# spec["year"], spec["model"], spec["engine"] …
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