RIDING THE RANGE
Royal Enfield certainly created an extensive range of unit-construction 250 singles, and when it was brand new in 1965, the Continental GT wasn’t an inexpensive option at £270. £56 more bought you a Triumph Bonneville! These days, one will set you back anywhere from £3k to £5k, but I’ve seen them listed for more and for less. Look for genuine GT engines as they have been known to be replaced with Crusader engines. Also consider the excellent Continental and Super 5 models which were also fast and sporty.
Early Continental GT models had a silver frame and no battery cover. Later ones switched to a black frame with a red battery cover. In 1963, the 250 was marketed in Australia as the Wallaby dirt bike and in the USA as the Fireball scrambler. For 1966 the 250 TT model and Road Sports model with high bars were sold in America. The Clipper model designation also applied to some earlier preunit Royal Enfield 250s, and in 1963 350 Bullet became unit construction.