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Post by dalmahoy on Jan 28, 2020 7:44:16 GMT 1
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Post by stusco on Jan 28, 2020 8:07:52 GMT 1
It’s not even unmolested! Got to be fake news
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Post by dalmahoy on Jan 28, 2020 10:50:50 GMT 1
Aye - winning bid was $57200 - thats serious coinage.
Looking through the pictures, can only guess the winner was blinded by the colour and went bid crazy.
Also, the description on the bike:-
'This documented Skoal Bandit is the Suzuki equivalent of Chevrolet fitting lights and blinkers on the Hal Needham Burt Reynolds 1987 NASCAR Monte Carlo Aeroback Skoal Bandit and having Harry Gant hand you the keys.'
There's one born every day.
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Post by oldbritguy on Jan 28, 2020 11:02:27 GMT 1
Lovely bike and a beautiful example but..............$57k plus whatever commission the auction puts on..... FFS!  And I thought things were mental at £15k here in the UK for a good 'un. Mecum is one of the biggest classic auto auctions in the US with multi millionaires paying way over the odds for anything with an engine and a "story". It would be nice though to have that amount of loose change in my pocket to buy something special. Unlikely this one will ever see the road again  |
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Post by Norbo on Jan 28, 2020 14:11:55 GMT 1
I got the mail about iot . There was a nice RD 400 Daytona that i was interested in but to far and by the looks of it would have cost a fortune .
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Post by tacky1 on Jan 28, 2020 16:29:00 GMT 1
Ill sell mine for 50k if anyone wants a deal, no fees.  |
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Post by srhiskx on Jan 28, 2020 16:46:42 GMT 1
There was a lot of the 2 strokes that went for stupid money.
84 RZ350 YPVS Y/B all stock and very low miles went for 13.5k and another R/W 84 350 went for 11k. Although there was a couple of RZ500’s that went for under 15k
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Post by veg on Jan 28, 2020 18:51:57 GMT 1
I know of an rd500 with 20 k miles std nick for less than £10k but it’s in spain
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Post by dalmahoy on Jan 29, 2020 7:52:43 GMT 1
Appreciate they're 4 strokes and I'm showing my age - but a couple of Kawasaki's I once owned and noticed went through the auction - GPZ900R and a GPZ1100 - they both look spot on - went for $5k each. Then looking further down the listing - a GSXR50 - making $10k.
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Post by haj on Jan 29, 2020 15:09:35 GMT 1
Hey,
If anyone wants to see that Matt guy from youtube has a video series where he pulls one of those RG500 engines apart.
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Post by icarus001 on Jan 30, 2020 4:04:42 GMT 1
Lovely bike and you'd never get tired of looking at it - but I can't help feeling that it would be a big disappointment if you've bought into the hype and paid that sort of money for it. You're expecting something that Barry Sheene might have ridden and what you've actually got is an 80's road bike that was 50% hype even back in the day. I love them, I drooled after them as a youth and I'd have a garage full of them if I could, but it's not a racer with lights, it never was. Anyone buying into that hype and spending that sort of money will be disappointed. Not to mention the swearing every time he opens the garage door and finds it in a pool of it's own fluids  |
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Post by dougw on Jan 30, 2020 17:02:14 GMT 1
Lovely bike and you'd never get tired of looking at it - but I can't help feeling that it would be a big disappointment if you've bought into the hype and paid that sort of money for it. You're expecting something that Barry Sheene might have ridden and what you've actually got is an 80's road bike that was 50% hype even back in the day. I love them, I drooled after them as a youth and I'd have a garage full of them if I could, but it's not a racer with lights, it never was. Anyone buying into that hype and spending that sort of money will be disappointed. Not to mention the swearing every time he opens the garage door and finds it in a pool of it's own fluids Agree. While a lovely thing, a friend of mine had one from new, and a lot of problems. He was a handy club racer and actually had a real MK8RG500 (I think) but struggled to keep the tuned road RG500 running right while racing it. Briefly lusted after them myself, but then the GSXR750 came out, back then all we were interested in was absolute performance and lap times, so RG500 forgotten about ( OK I think Darren Dixon ? did OK on one) Mates RG500 got replaced by a GSXR750J with an 11 lump in it. Different league for club racing in the UK, the only problem he had was that it would unpeel the rear tyres at the join, no slicks allowed in club racing in the UK back then. None of this is any way affected by jealousy and the fact that even when the prices weren't crazy and I could afford to buy one I wouldn't have been able to afford the maintenance costs that would result from an ignorant yob riding it. |
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