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Vintage & Classic Motorcycles — Webb's

Auction House: Webb's Number of lots recorded: 46
Sale Title: Vintage & Classic Motorcycles Lots with images: 29
Auction Location: Auckland Prices available: 31
Date: 18/03/2009









Lot Description Price Image
*** Westlake Speed Way Racer 500cc 40 Bhp, Circa 1980 , One Way-Side Ways, Standing the test of time, speedway is a beautifully simple spectacle. Two teams (four pilots per team), riding methanol-powered 500cc motorcycles with no brakes, minimal front suspensions and a single heart-wrenching gear, race four times around a quarter mile circuit - and one of them wins.… ***
*** Norton 650cc Dominator Deluxe 99, 1962, Hidden Dominator, Norton's story begins in 1898 in Birmingham with James Lansdown Norton - an engineering toolmaker apprentice - devising plans for a motor-assisted bicycle to bear the name of Norton on its tank. By 1902, the 'Energette' was unveiled: it was a machine that was neither better nor worse than most others of the day. The first Norton was little more than a strengthened bicycle with a 11/2 hp Clement engine clipped on to it.… ***
*** Bsa 650cc Fire Bird, 1968, Urban Scrambler, By 1967, the entire production line for the Bsa Firebird was allocated to the American market which had developed a taste for well-tuned street scramblers. It is, without doubt, one of the most handsome BSAs to grace our streets. The Firebird is, for many, a highly desirable piece of metal and, with its strong, well-tempered power delivery and attractive geometry, the 650cc parallel twin is a highly capable machine even by today's standards.… ***
*** T120 Tt Bonneville Special, 1968, The Earth Shaker. The cafe racer's favorite since its launch in 1959, the Bonneville continued as Triumph's top-of-the-range sports model after the switch to unitary construction of the engine/gearbox in 1963. An alloy cylinder head equipped with twin carburetors helped the Bonnie motor produce 46bhp at 6,500rpm and the model was reckoned good for a top speed approaching 120mph.… ***
*** Kawasaki H1 Mach III, 1973, The Widow Maker, Raw and uncompromising, the Mach III was nothing less than ferocious. Aimed squarely at the fearless and idiotic, this Darwinian time machine, designed by Kawasaki, was destined to cull the less-evolved rider out of existence.… ***
*** Indian Chief 1200cc, 1948, The Beautiful and Damned, If ever there were a machine that captured the industrial design sensibilities of the roaring 20s it was, without a doubt, the Indian Chief. Designed with the throttle on the left-hand side of the machine to allow the police to brandish their pistols in the comic pursuit of all manner of bootleggers and slapper crooks, the Indian Chief was and remains the classic art deco machine of the 20th century.… ***
*** Burt Munro/Duncan Meikle Special - Velocette Drag Bike , 1936. Metal Incarnations. The story of Burt Munro's metal-urging genius is long and, in many ways, complicated. For a start, the legend of Munro was, and remains, fuelled by anecdote, fact and fiction which have become one; the blockbuster movie 'The World's Fastest Indian' is a wonderful testament to this. What is also true is that Munro worked and toiled with likeminded dedication and from this gained complex and lifelong friendships.… ***
*** Douglas, Circa 1911, Future Primitive. The Bristol-based Douglas Foundry took up motorcycle production in 1907, three or four years before this machine was created. There is something quite remarkable about a find such as this very early Douglas.… ***
*** GT750 Ducati, 1973 *** N/A 
*** Triton T150, 1969, What could have been. This immaculate T150 Triton (a hybrid of Norton and Triumph) pays homage to the pinnacle of British motorcycle engineering of the late '60s. This formidable hand-built machine has a Triumph 750cc Trident engine and is balanced, ported and polished with mushroom tappets; it has travelled far fewer than 1,000 miles since total rebuild.… ***
*** Triumph Trident T150, 1971, Fast line, Arguably one of the world's most capable roadsters when released in 1969, the new 740cc pushrod-operated, three-cylinder engine pumped out a respectable 58bhp which catapulted the piacross the 200kph line with a uniq… *** N/A 
*** Triumph Trident T160c, 1975. The Minta. With fewer than 1,200 genuine miles on the clock and 100% factory correct, this has to be one of the cleanest Tridents available in Australasia.… *** N/A 
*** Triumph Trident T150, 1973. The Breadbox, The Trident's modernistic styling was, at the time of its unveiling (1973), not universally appreciated, particularly in America.… *** N/A 
*** Harley Davidson Xls 4-Speed Sportster Roadster, 1979, Iron head, The first Xls (S for special) took some design cues from the Low Rider which made a point of accommodating the pilot's better half, although the pillion mount was still sub-standard and ran the risk of attracting a class action. This did not, however, distract the design team away from its core responsibility to the rider which had the standard power plant delivering a 14.26 seconds quarter mile drag (excluding the missus).… ***
*** Yamaha SR500, 1981, Old FaithfulI have owned many bikes but the SR500 holds a special place. It was my first road bike, the one my parents never knew about, the one I could barely afford and the one that carried me safely through my initial years on the road. First released in 1978, the SR500 was destined to become a legend as one of the most reliable and easy-to-maintain motorcycles ever built. It sold more units in Germany than any other Yamaha and in Japan the Sr holds cult status.… ***
*** Bsa Sloper Sv 500, 1930, Hard YardsAnother wonderful example of Neil Skeet's workmanship this 1930 side valve Sloper, which in some ways reflects the end of an era as over head valve technology started to become common place for the private rider. With this, the best of side valve designs faded out of favor.… ***
*** Bsa O.H.V Sloper, 1931. The one that got away.. Although documented in Maureen Bull's remarkable publication New Zealand's Motorcycle History - Book One: 1899 to 1931, the early history of Neil Skeet's Bsa Sloper is not known.… *** N/A 
*** Douglas, 1926, Refined Geometry. The Douglas Engineering Company, formed in Bristol by brothers William and Edward in 1882, was at first a blacksmith's shop but soon expanded to become an iron foundry. After the turn of the century and the advent of the motor vehicle, it soon became involved in the development of engines and was especially renowned for horizontally opposed twin-cylinder bikes and as a manufacturer of furious speedway machines.… ***
*** Bsa A7 500cc, 1951, Getting it right. Designed by Val Page, Herbert Parker and David Munro, the Bsa A7 was the first of Bsa's twin-cylinder motorcycles. It was ready for launch in 1939 but the outbreak of Wwii delayed the launch until September 1946 after hostilities had ended. The very first A7 off the production line was flown to Paris for the first motorcycle show after the end of the war and the public's reaction was favourable - demand was high for simple, affordable transport.… ***
*** Norton CS1 , 1928. The Blue PrintRidden to its limit, no other production bike could come close. The CS1 (Cam Shaft One) was Norton's first overhead cam engine. It replaced the influential overhead valve model 18 at the top of its range and thus became the basis for all Norton's racing efforts. It was designed by Walter Moore who had been brought into Norton to take over from the ailing James Norton. Moore knew that the way to secure more power was through higher RPMs and that overhead cams were the answer.… ***

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