G'day Norm,
I've never had much to do with Brit bikes [Honda, Suzuki and nowadays Moto Guzzi for me], but Modak were legendary for old Brit bike parts - and the old girl's knowledge of such parts was also legendary.
Nor did she suffer fools gladly - as you no doubt have encountered many a time, there are far too many folk around the car/bike parts scene who pretend to know a great deal more than they actually do.
It was a bit that way with Preston Honda, back in the day - Eddie had a computerised inventory system long before Honda MPE did, and he had lots of older parts in stock that they could only get ex Japan, if at all. And that's from the perspective of a Honda dealership, which my family had back in the 70's- early 80's.
