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Known history this extremely rare 250 grand prix (only two were built) was designed by francesco villa the brother of world champion walter villa. during the 60's & 70's francesco villa was a motorcycle manufacturer and the villa 50 & 125 cc race bikes were ever present on the tracks. in 1968 he decided to build a 250 4 cylinder with rotary distribution. the fim then banned from grand prix machines with more than two cylinders and this bike never raced and further development was halted.

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In 1954, several Parillas were imported into the United States to test the market for interest. Several years later, Cosmopolitan Motors of Philadelphia, Pa.

was established as the main importer of Parilla motorcycles to the United States. They started selling Parillas in 1957 and sold a dozen different models over the years. After the Parilla company went into receivership in 1963, Cosmopolitan bought leftover company inventory from various sources and continued to sell & service Parillas for another couple of years. The number Parilla motorcycles exported to the USA could be as high as 20,000, but