Registered, with papers.
VIN No. 14 366_x000D_
Engine No. 14 366_x000D_
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Gilera was founded in Milan in 1909 by Giuseppe Gellera. After the First World War, he began to build a 500cc model, a single-cylinder 4-stroke engine with side valves with which he won several races – really good publicity; and in fact, with the growth of orders, production was then transferred from Milan to Arcore thus becoming to all intents and purposes a large and modern company. In the 1930s, in 1935 to be precise, the famous 500 cc side-valve engine was updated with a much more powerful model, with an overhead valve timing system, called VT (Valvole in Testa - Overhead Valve ), also four bolts; because of the number of bolts that tightened the cylinder head assembly. Very soon, this engine, given the power developed and consequent mechanical problems that arose, needed a radical intervention to reinforce its own cylinder head  thermal unit and the “eight bolts” model was born, which were the bolts needed to contain this great (for the time) power. Restored and presumably never used since. A general mechanical check is recommended before use.