Photo: Mecum Auctions
At the end of last week, the auction house Mecum ran the MidAmerica Motorcycles auction in Houston, TX, and managed to cash in just under $1.34 mil (€968,000) in just 4 hours.
A massive lot of vintage bikes (174 units) have gone under the hammer and no less than 125 have been successfully hammered as sold, making up for a very neat 72% sell-through rate. Many of these vintage bikes (over 100) came from the Mike Doyle Museum Collection, and have drawn a significant number of international bidders from the US, Germany, the UK, Canada or Italy, bidding in person, over the internet or via phone.
The youngest bike in Top 10 was a 1984 Honda RS750, which brought in $39,000 (€28,190). Like we kind of expected, the leading sale was a 1949 Vincent HRD Black Shadow which gaveled $105,000 (€75,900). A 1928 Henderson K-Deluxe was next in line, but with a solid gap, as it went away for $62,000 (€44,800), while the third most expensive machine was an 1926 Harley-Davidson JDH-8 Valve Board Track Racer, sold for $57,000 (€41,200).
Other bikes in top ten worth mentioning have been a Vincent Comet made in 1952, a 1949 Norton Manx, a ’41 Indian Four Cylinder and an Indian Twin dating back to 1941. So if you have an old bike laying around in the back of the oldest barn on your land, maybe you’re sitting on a small fortune…
The youngest bike in Top 10 was a 1984 Honda RS750, which brought in $39,000 (€28,190). Like we kind of expected, the leading sale was a 1949 Vincent HRD Black Shadow which gaveled $105,000 (€75,900). A 1928 Henderson K-Deluxe was next in line, but with a solid gap, as it went away for $62,000 (€44,800), while the third most expensive machine was an 1926 Harley-Davidson JDH-8 Valve Board Track Racer, sold for $57,000 (€41,200).
Other bikes in top ten worth mentioning have been a Vincent Comet made in 1952, a 1949 Norton Manx, a ’41 Indian Four Cylinder and an Indian Twin dating back to 1941. So if you have an old bike laying around in the back of the oldest barn on your land, maybe you’re sitting on a small fortune…
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