What recession?
A sale of various old motorcycles - everything from a 1950 Vincent White Shadow to the crotch rockets actor Steve McQueen liked to tool around on - went under the hammer over the weekend in our famed Carmel Valley.
Next time you look at the old rusting, leaking hunk of iron you have left sitting in your garage since 1972 consider this - the sale brought in nearly a million in proceeds for those lucky enough to have owned some of the fastest metal around.
The Series C. White Shadow fell under the hammer at $111,150. And someone shelled out $166,000 for two of the perpetually cool actor's bikes as well as his driver's licenese. Hey, I got an old California license right here I'll sell ya...
A bidder paid $84,240 for McQueen's 1963 Triumph Bonneville "desert sled," a bike built by Bud Ekins, a motorcycle racer and friend of the actor best remembered for his iconic barbed wire jump in "The Great Escape."
Another Triumph, not for sale on Saturday, was gussied up to look like a World War II vintage motor and used in the chase and jump sequence... which Ekins made while McQueen did the closeup work.
1 comment:
I have to say that until I read this I believed Mr. Cool made that jump. And you could tell it was a Triumph from a mile away. I loved that freaking movie!
Biker Boy
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