Spotted on ebay... '59 Bonnie showing less than 600 miles!

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Yes, at that silly money he's living in dreamland. Even if it was fully restored and running, I would give it a UK value of around £14 - 15,000. That works out around $23,000, but, considering you guys over in the states seem to pay significantly less for your classic bikes, its probably worth around $15,000 as it stands?

Just my thoughts on it.

Be a nice thing to have in the garage though.
 
"59 Bonnies" coming out of the woodwork lately. If a near perfect supposedly completely original unrestored one failed to reach $30K recently, I don't see how this one is going for anywhere near the asking price.
 
My thought exactly. He's at least 20,000 too high.

I concur. In fact I think it is worth less than $20,000.





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A beautifully restored one with all the authenticated paperwork, matching numbers etc has just sold in New Zealand on ebay for $NZ30,000 (Approx $US22,000). There were only 2 bids on it with a start price of 28K. All origonal except for a 9 stud head and barrels fitted with high compression pistons. The seller had owned it for 30 years.
 
Looks and sounds nice - depends what the reserve is set at - in UK this should reach around £3,200. Don't know what it would run like higher up the rev range with just the headers? (Though the "silencers" on mine are virtually straight-through anyway ((a token bit of perforated pipe internally)) and it runs really well on standard jetting).

Back to the older stuff tho' - classics are so much cheaper in the US - why is that? After all they were built here in the UK. Maybe more of 'em survived over there because of the better weather - supply and demand, I suppose.
 

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