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We left this morning at 8:30 AM and were back by noon.
Not too much traffic and not a lot of rain.
A correction from yesterday, the Panther does not have two exhaust valves it has one valve and two ports.
One guy bought thirty bikes at the auction, 24 of them on Thursday afternoon!
That's the day for deals if you are on the ball and know your stuff.
He also bid on a clock being donated to a children's cancer research charity, he bought it for $2500 and then offered to double the bid if all of the Mecum crew would sign the clock; which they did.
On Friday morning he donated the clock back to be auctioned again, This time it made $3000, that guy donated it back and on Saturday it sold again for about the same, so $11,000 in all for the charity.
There were some surprises, bikes that did not make anything like my estimate and others that were way up there.
Click on the link below for the pictures, this was a factory made cutaway bike shown at Earls Court, London motorcycle show. It sold for $110,000
Cut Away BSA
That's the day for deals if you are on the ball and know your stuff.
He also bid on a clock being donated to a children's cancer research charity, he bought it for $2500 and then offered to double the bid if all of the Mecum crew would sign the clock; which they did.
On Friday morning he donated the clock back to be auctioned again, This time it made $3000, that guy donated it back and on Saturday it sold again for about the same, so $11,000 in all for the charity.
There were some surprises, bikes that did not make anything like my estimate and others that were way up there.
Click on the link below for the pictures, this was a factory made cutaway bike shown at Earls Court, London motorcycle show. It sold for $110,000
Cut Away BSA
Another one was this Turbine powered bike.
The highest bid was $400,000 for a 1908 Harley Davidson Strap Tank, it did not meet the reserve.
I guess the guy wanted a half a million for it.
More soon when the Thumper makes it back home.
Ciao Bella
Norm
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