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The following list is about Jawa importing to United States of America!! Jawa
Model List 1929-1984 1929-30
Jawa 500 OHV Wanderer The
chart outlining Jawa production from 1929-1984 is truly “a work in
progress”, and makes no claim to be the last word on the subject. Its
purpose is to provide approximate dating for North American Jawa
owners. Thus postwar models which were not imported into the continent
do not appear. The first Jawas to be imported were the revolutionary
Peraks, manufactured after World War II, but the prewar models are
included here for clarity’s sake and because some have found their way
to North America over the years. The post 1984 models are not listed
because they were not imported, and in fact street machines over 50cc
were prohibited for
environmental reasons. All over the world motorcycles from
Czechoslovakia were sold under various names. What was a CZ in one
market might be a Jawa in another, and this was true in North America.
It does seem that many road machines actually made by Jawa have model
#’s begining with 3, CZ’s with 4, Manet with 5. CZ made engines of
125-175cc displacement, Jawa 250 and above, Manet, smaller than 125cc.
This holds true regardless of the name on the machine....communist
cooperation! Models in production for several years, like the
Jawa353/354 series had periodic upgrades/changes which are denominated
by a slash and digits following the model number, as in 354/04. That
would be the fourth significant change in the course of production of
the 354. However, we do not know exactly what changes were made in any
particular upgrade in most cases, nor how many machines were made, or
what serial numbers were produced in a given year. Apparently such
information was considered a state secret. So dating a Jawa is
difficult, especially if a model was built for several years. Perhaps we
will get more information as time goes on so we can be more specific
about what was built, when and in what quantity. Someday, but not
now.... This
list was compiled by slavishly copying data from many sources, most on
the web. Special thanks is due to the UK Jawa-CZ Owners Club, The
Netherlands Jawa Club and Edgar Uher of MZ-B, Reese Dengler of
Czechpoint, and Mario Mager of Jawaczech.Also there are wonderful Czech
language sites with valuable pictures of historic machines. Try
www.jawa-cz.misto.cz//_mail_/motocykly.html
; or go to www.jawa.nl
in the Netherlands. The best model-by-model site is www.jawamania.cz
. It has dates,
pictures and specifications. It is written in Czech, but one can cope!
To find all of these sites and many more go to our website www.geocities.com/jawacz2001
or search for czechpoint or
jawaczech. There is a world of information, some contradictory, waiting
for you...just follow the links! Finally,
my sincere thanks to Reese Dengler, Don Schumann, Dan Devine and Arthur
Fleming (of the UK Jawa/CZ Owners Club) for reading and
correcting drafts of this list. Despite their warnings that this was a
hopeless task, I persisted. They were right, we do not have the data to
get it “right”, but this is better than nothing, I hope. All the
errors are mine, all the useful insights theirs. |
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