Take a good look at this Honda coming up for auction with Charterhouse on 6 June. It’s a rare, and I mean very rare, Honda CR93 from 1962. How rare? Just 200 Honda CR93 motorcycles were ever made, most for racing with just 30 being street legal, such as this one. According to the CR93 […]
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What to make of the results from the Charterhouse auction of classic & vintage motorcycles on 26 October 2023? There were some good prices made, a number of bargains, but also quite a few unsold in the 200 lots. Let’s start with the positives. A new 2022 Norvin built by specialist JMC Classics went under
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A new Norvin… is that even possible? A new Vincent 1,000cc vee-twin engine in a Norton Featherbed frame with modern cycle parts? Yes, and one is coming up for auction at the Charterhouse Classic & Vintage Motorcycle auction on 26 October. The auction will be held at the Haynes International Motor Museum near Sparkford, Somerset,
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An Egli-Vincent rebuilt in 2006 by Patrick Godet under licence from Fritz Egli using a new magnesium 1200cc Godet engine sold for £53,000 (+auction costs) at the Charterhouse Classic Motorcycle auction at the Haynes Motor Museum on 29 June 2023. The motorcycle was originally registered in France as a 1968 model and issued with an
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Norton George… what a great name! Evocative and intriguing at the same time. And it rang a distant bell, though I’m still not sure from where. Probably my mate Miles McCallum, with whom I shared a mad house in the early 1980s in south London, and whose name is listed in the archive of Norton
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Charterhouse Auctioneers says its classic and vintage bike auction on 30 March at the Haynes International Motor Museum was a great success with nearly 75% sold, with the total value reaching just over £500,000. “We had a great selection of 180 bikes dating back over the past 100 years,” said auctioneer George Beale. “This combined with
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Among the 85 motorcycles listed so far in the Charterhouse Classic & Vintage Motorcycle Auction at the Haynes Motor Museum on 30 March is an extraordinary 1936 Brough Superior SS100 with an Alpine Grand Sports sidecar. Bearing the original registration number of DAU 673, the outfit is estimated to sell for between £260,000 to £270,000.
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