The Classic MotorCycle

Choose Your Auction

Everyone already knows about the big auctions, the headline events, the sales which rack up all the column inches in the press and miles upon miles of chatter out in the ethers. There are a whole lot of others out there too.

Everyone already knows all about eBay, the most popular and well known of the very few online auction sites, but there are many other places to look, some well promoted and easy to find, others considerably less so. Did you know that several trade players buy stock at the smaller, local sales and then simply re-sell them at the huge multinational events? They do. You can usefully learn from them, too.

Local Sales

It’s a recurring surprise in this internet age that so many small local sales do not promote online. Or if they do that wise thing, they do it so badly that you’ll never see their ads unless you already know that there’s an event.

The answer to this is

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from The Classic MotorCycle

The Classic MotorCycle6 min read
An Undervalued Classic?
Browsing through adverts for classic big British twins, it’s always been noticeable that prices for BSA’s A65 are significantly lower than for equivalent age and engine size Triumphs and Nortons. When the A65 was first introduced in 1962, it met with
The Classic MotorCycle2 min read
Welcome
Recently, for various reasons, I’ve been thinking about pillions, or more specifically pillion seats. Think what started it was a mixture of our archive picture of the Coventry Eagle Pullman Two-seater (see page 16) combined with the fact I’ve had a
The Classic MotorCycle4 min read
Boring Work
It’s strange how things happen… The other evening, I was sitting in the workshop, trying to figure out how to neatly remove around a millimetre of material from the cutaway on the front of the slide of a 21mm carburettor to make it a little weaker in

Related Books & Audiobooks