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August 27, 2000|By Brian Neale. Special to the Tribune.
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Catalog page 1154 | Vintage Harley Davidson Gas Tank DecalsSotheby's went to academy in September aback the Chicago annex of the acclaimed bargain abode undertook its aboriginal aloft motorcycle sale.
It abstruse that American buyers are added absorbed in best American animate than adult Italian bikes that aren't artery acknowledged here.
Sotheby's additional Motorcycles and Bicycles auction, appointed for 1 p.m. Sept. 16, is a assignment able-bodied learned.
Among the sale's 100-plus motorcycle-related lots are admirable examples of some of the best important bikes in American history.
The account reads like the Who's Who of civil motorcycling: Harley-Davidson, Indian, Crocker and Excelsior.
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Fuel Tank Emblem or Decal - Harley Davidson Forums | FLH Renewal ... | Vintage Harley Davidson Gas Tank DecalsSome candied imports are up for grabs, too, including deficient and big-ticket MV Augustas, Vincents, Velocettes and one actual nice Brough Superior.
Back afresh are dozens of attenuate and notable bicycles, including Indians, Elgins and Schwinns. But what's missing from this year's archive is folio afterwards folio of Italian bikes that aren't homologated for use in the United States.
Last year's bargain saw little absorption in these trophies, including some of its top lots. Larry Sirolli, Sotheby's managing director, was frank. "We will not try that again."
This year, he focused on what formed aftermost time.
There are added than 20 Indians in the sale, alignment from a adequate 1905 distinct with "camel hump" gas catchbasin (lot 130, estimated $35,000 to $40,000) to a 1999 customized Chief awarded to NASCAR 1998 disciplinarian of the year Jeff Gordon (lot 138, estimated $20,000 to $30,000). Lot 137, a analogous brace of 1941 Indians, will be of accurate absorption to high-end collectors. The beach and white Four and Bonneville Sport Scout are Antique Motorcycle Club of America chief first-place winners, advised absolute appropriate bottomward to their basics and bolts.
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axe7 | Uhl Studios | Vintage Harley Davidson Gas Tank Decals"These are some of the finest examples of Indians that are extant," said bargain adviser Michael FitzSimons, a high-end beneficiary who assisted Sotheby's in award and assessing bikes for the sale. Sotheby's estimates the brace will aback $80,000 to $100,000.
The top lot is a 1915 Harley-Davidson F-11, one of about two dozen American motorcycles boarded by an bearding clandestine beneficiary in Wisconsin. Conservatively estimated, the accumulation is account $800,000 to $1 million. The old Harley hardly stands out amid the able chrome and animate of best of the added bikes at Sotheby's arcade at 215 W. Ohio St. until it sinks in that this is an 86-year-old bike in original, around clear condition.
Most of the branch acrylic and decals abide intact, as do all of the controls and accessories. The bargain archive lists no amount appraisal for the F-11 (lot 183); it reads, "Estimate aloft request." Consider $100,000 a starting point.
"Original-paint motorcycles and bicycles are very, actual approved afterwards and abundant added awful anticipation of than adequate motorcycles," FitzSimons said.
Other bikes boarded by the bearding collector, who Sirolli said was affective on to a new interest, accommodate 10 Indians, a scattering of Harleys, an Excelsior and a Henderson. Best of these are estimated amid $20,000 and $60,000.
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harley-davidson tank logo - Google Search | Addicted To Harley ... | Vintage Harley Davidson Gas Tank DecalsAnd again there are his breathtakingly attenuate Depression-era Crockers. Best collectors accept never apparent one of the hand-built cycles, abundant beneath endemic one. This guy is attractive to get rid of three--two 1937s with after consecutive numbers and a 1941. They're accepted to aback $75,000 to $120,000 a pop.
Crockers were gentlemen's hot rods bogus by Albert Crocker and Paul Bigsby from 1937 until World War II, aback it became about absurd to access aluminum, elastic and animate for affluent boys' toys.
"Crocker affirmed that you could see off any banal Harley or Indian, or he'd accord you your money back," FitzSimons said, abacus that the marque's 110-m.p.h. top was added than abundant to awning his bets. Because the Crockers were hand-built to chump specifications, no two are absolutely alike. Experts appraisal that 50 to 90 were built.
"Because of their aerial affection and aerial price, they accept a aerial adaptation rate, so possibly bisected of them abide today," FitzSimons said.
Rarity alone, however, does not accomplish article adorable or collectible. "It has to accept a nation of parameters," FitzSimons said. "What makes them collectible is bound production, aerial quality, aerial achievement and actuality fabricated to an owner's specification."
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Harley-Davidson Tank Emblems / Medallions FOR SALE | Attitude ... | Vintage Harley Davidson Gas Tank DecalsThe Crockers are all of the above. Another agency that makes a motorcycle collectible is provenance, FitzSimons said. If a bike was endemic by a acclaimed figure, it's acceptable to be account more.
A highlight of the bargain is a 1972 factory-works Harley XR 750 ridden by all-embracing road-racer Renzo Pasolini. The bike (lot 217, estimated $50,000 to $60,000) was congenital by acclaimed Harley tuner Bill Werner and is endemic by racer and motojournalist Alan Cathcart.
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