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Think we are a victim of hit and run or someone helping with the estate has "helped." If the bike was out west I was interested. What a great find.....
Good luck getting anything like the prices that these morons have been posting. I mean WTF, Is it made of gold or something. Opinions are just that. Their like A-holes, everybody's got one. I saw a post recently that had a link to a Sixty-eight on Ebay that only sold for Sixty-seven hundred, and it looked great.
Good luck with it whatever you choose to do! As much as I would like to have an oldie such as that, the future for mine is a rat bike. No not a built one, just slowly become one naturally over the next Twenty years.
It would be a wonderful thing if you just kept it and made it what you wanted.
My $0.02
aka Bob
so you can express your two cents worth , but when i do i'm a moron ?
you might have an opinion , but that doesn't mean you have to act like one
Before the "owner" gets all hot to trot about what it's worth, he needs to find out if it can even be registered. OP states he inherited the house. Who owned the bike? Are there any ownership papers available or just his hunch that it's worth a small mint?
A 1967 would have no title, only a transferable registration. No valid registration, no sale in my book. As nice as the bike could be after a lot of TLC, would anyone in their right mind buy this thing w/o confirming they were buying a bike that could be registered? I don't think so. Sink the $4000.00 + in getting this thing up and running may leave you with just that, an expensive piece of shiny motorcycle history.
Before the "owner" gets all hot to trot about what it's worth, he needs to find out if it can even be registered. OP states he inherited the house. Who owned the bike? Are there any ownership papers available or just his hunch that it's worth a small mint?
A 1967 would have no title, only a transferable registration. No valid registration, no sale in my book. As nice as the bike could be after a lot of TLC, would anyone in their right mind buy this thing w/o confirming they were buying a bike that could be registered? I don't think so. Sink the $4000.00 + in getting this thing up and running may leave you with just that, an expensive piece of shiny motorcycle history.
I think the title/registration issue can solved without a huge problem. I'd certainly give it a try if the heir would contact me ready to sell... given the price is right, that is.
Last edited by 1931jamesw; Aug 10, 2010 at 12:14 PM.
Before the "owner" gets all hot to trot about what it's worth, he needs to find out if it can even be registered. OP states he inherited the house. Who owned the bike? Are there any ownership papers available or just his hunch that it's worth a small mint?
A 1967 would have no title, only a transferable registration. No valid registration, no sale in my book. As nice as the bike could be after a lot of TLC, would anyone in their right mind buy this thing w/o confirming they were buying a bike that could be registered? I don't think so. Sink the $4000.00 + in getting this thing up and running may leave you with just that, an expensive piece of shiny motorcycle history.
I think the title/registration issue can solved without a huge problem. I'd certainly give it a try if the heir would contact me ready to sell... given the price is right, that is.
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