Marlon Brando’s Harley Sold for $256,000!
A few weeks ago, we told you that one of Marlon Brando’s own personal motorcycles was going to be coming up for auction at Julien’s Hollywood Legends auction in Hollywood. The bike in questions was a 1969 Harley-Davidson FLH Electra-Glide and that Brando actually owned the bike since new. Pre auction estimates were from $200,000-$400,000.
Last week, the bike went up for auction and sold for a healthy $256,000. Brando, as some of you may know already, was a die-hard motorcycle enthusiasts and would often get up in the wee hours of the morning to go out for a ride before the streets became too congested with traffic to clear his mind.
One of Brando’s favorite things to say was, “It still pleases me to be awake during the dark, early hours before morning when everyone else is still asleep. I’ve been that way since I first moved to New York. I do my best thinking and writing then. During those early years in New York, I often got on my motorcycle in the middle of the night and went for a ride-anyplace. There wasn’t much crime in the city then, and if you owned a motorcycle, you left it outside your apartment and in the morning it was still there. It was wonderful on summer nights to cruise around the city at one, two, or three a.m. wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a girl on the seat behind me. If I didn’t start out with one, I’d find one.”