Las Vegas MC Auction - Commando Sales

xbacksideslider · Jan 17, 2011

http://www.midamericaauctions.com/showa ... asp?ID=140

Go to page 17 for the prices fetched and photos of what was bought.

pelican · Jan 17, 2011

That silver s has some MEGA flake paint :shock: looks good

grandpaul · Jan 18, 2011

Prices are about what I expected.

Some lower, some higher.

Scruffy & custom P11s fetching $10K...

JPNs right at $10K...

Mark III Roadster at $9K+ <<WOW

debby · Jan 18, 2011

Those are actually last year's auction results (2010). Check the date. The tipoff for me was seeing the charity bike that the Michigan club auctioned off last year.

I'll be interested in seeing this year's results when they post them!

Debby

Jeandr · Jan 18, 2011

Prices are low IMOHO, probably too many offers for few lucky buyers.

Jean

Madnorton · Jan 18, 2011

A little more then I expected for some of the models but seem to be the way things are going with prices. However, I did notice Honda Step thru' and ISO scooter - at those prices I wish I could ship them to the states by the container load!!

Brithit · Jan 18, 2011

Here's the link for the 2011 auction:

http://www.midamericaauctions.com/showa ... &PersonID=

I attended this one, and it's certainly entertaining. There was also a competing auction this year at The Imperial Palace - the Mid-American auction was at the South Point Casino, well south of the strip, but still on Las Vegas Blvd. Bonhams held the auction at IP, and I've heard somewhere around 200 bikes. The MA auction claimed around 500. I was there for all three days, and there were many bikes being rolled in and out all the time, so you had to take a run-through the lines several times to even hope to see everything.

Here's a link to some pictures we took:

http://picasaweb.google.com/donsbikesan ... leAuction#

72Combat · Jan 18, 2011

Lot 350, Vincent , $275 000.

To me this would see rather a lot to pay for a motorcycle..... :roll:

grandpaul · Jan 18, 2011

72Combat said:
Lot 350, Vincent , $275 000.

To me this would see rather a lot to pay for a motorcycle..... :roll:

I'm certainly not spending that much money on ANYTHING that doesn't have AT LEAST 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, and a 10 or 12 bike garage.

grandpaul · Jan 18, 2011

I'll say this much:

It would appear that the market for Norton Commandos and Triumph Bonnevilles is on the rebound, and already approaching 2007 levels (what I consider to be the all-time high, with much research done on the topic in the last 6 years).

Very good news, indeed.

Sad that I couldn't hold out to sell that alloy tank monoshock Commando here, it would have likely fetched well over $10K looking at some of the other Commandos and specials and what they sold for...

Mark · Jan 18, 2011

grandpaul said:
I'm certainly not spending that much money on ANYTHING that doesn't have AT LEAST 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, and a 10 or 12 bike garage.

Then don't plan on moving to Durango, Colorado. With the housing prices around here, $275K will buy you a shack of a house or maybe a mobile home with a pole barn on the property.

The bike prices seem in line to me.
The people that buy at those auctions are there to spend money and from what I've seen - they do.

batrider · Jan 18, 2011

I might have gone for the 1960 ES2 for $5000 if I ran in those rich circles.

Brithit · Jan 18, 2011

Some of the better deals I saw were the "second chance" bikes. If they didn't meet their reserve or didn't sell, they'd line them up and put a tag on them with a price. I don't know how negotiable those prices were, but some of the second chance prices weren't too bad and some were quite high. I saw a '68 Bonneville with a second chance price of 17k on it. Very nice bike, but they're not at that point yet. Another similar '68 sold for 10K IIRC. I saw one of the Broughs with a second chance price of 280K, and it ended up selling for less, but sold nonetheless. That Cammy Velo that sold for 3K, was a smokin' deal. I saw it in the second chance row, but nowhere near that low, so either the online price is wrong, or somebody got a great deal.

highdesert · Jan 18, 2011

Off Commando topic but, I have a friend with a mint condition 1948 Norton Manx 500, and I mean mint.

Any idea of what this may be worth?

Danno · Jan 18, 2011

That gorgeous blue '74 850 was missing a right footpeg. Why would anyone leave off such a simple, cheap part?

The purple "S" was misidentified as an "SS"

Wasn't that David Edwards' custom P11?

Just being observant.

Norton-Villier · Jan 18, 2011

The 73 850 that went for 12.000 had a integral transmission damper on it or in it Dose anyone know what that is? Phil

norbsa48503 · Jan 18, 2011

Danno, That was the June 2009’s sun on a bike that sold in January 2010 rest easy it was a fine runner and all complete before it sold. All of the picture we took after that didn’t show the Blue so well so no foot pegs was no big deal they were being chromed.

norbsa48503 · Jan 18, 2011

Norton Viller, This would normally mean that some type of rubber cush drive has been fitted into the clutch center as stock on BSA and Triumphs. The sad little rubber wedges the Commando uses in the rear wheel have been found to be lacking by those that do this change.

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