Trophies stolen from National Motorcycle museum!
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Trophies stolen from National Motorcycle museum!
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The trophies were apparently only electroplate and the scrap value about nil,
so quite what was the intention here of these villans is not obvious.
It is of concern too that there was no alarm to prevent this,
and the fact they could bust in at all is not good.
so quite what was the intention here of these villans is not obvious.
It is of concern too that there was no alarm to prevent this,
and the fact they could bust in at all is not good.
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I suggest the intention is quite obvious. Scrap value has nothing to do with this. Some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. It's been said that anything is worth only what you can get for it when you sell it. How much would you pay for the trophy Hailwood got when he won the IOM on the Ducati ? Scrap value ? - Surely it depends on whom you are selling it to and when, selling it doesn't change it's value.
An associate has a very original 1958 Manx Norton which he races regularly. I've told him that he doesn't recognise it's intrinsic value. You can buy a much better Molnar manx which looks exactly the same. Which is the more valuable - would you pay full dollar for a print of the Mona Lisa ? It is the same with very original Norton Commandos, do we really recognise their true value ? I don't think so.
In our local car racing world there is a guy who hates replica racing cars, he says they devalue the originals. My feeling is that a genuine Type35C Bugatti is worth ten times what the modern Brazilian copy costs. If you go to an historic race meeting, it is the detail in the appearance and performance of the cars (or bikes) which is important, not the chemical composition and metallurgy of the components. The problem comes when you try to pass off the fake or even a restoration as the genuine item when selling.
An associate has a very original 1958 Manx Norton which he races regularly. I've told him that he doesn't recognise it's intrinsic value. You can buy a much better Molnar manx which looks exactly the same. Which is the more valuable - would you pay full dollar for a print of the Mona Lisa ? It is the same with very original Norton Commandos, do we really recognise their true value ? I don't think so.
In our local car racing world there is a guy who hates replica racing cars, he says they devalue the originals. My feeling is that a genuine Type35C Bugatti is worth ten times what the modern Brazilian copy costs. If you go to an historic race meeting, it is the detail in the appearance and performance of the cars (or bikes) which is important, not the chemical composition and metallurgy of the components. The problem comes when you try to pass off the fake or even a restoration as the genuine item when selling.
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