Montesa Cota 200

The Spanish marque Montesa is legendary in the annals of trials history, so it’s always good to see a classic Cota restored to original condition. This one is a 1982 model owned by Oliver Cooper of Sheffield, in the north of England. He bought it for a song from an auto jumble last summer; it was a non-runner, and Cooper decided it would make a fun winter project. But at first, it looked like Cooper had bitten off more than he could chew. “The colors were wrong, it didn’t run and it was very worn out,” he recalls. “But it...