Rapide Price at Mathewsons auction
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This is a B with Bramptons too so much rarer and nicer perhaps than the Mathewsons which was a C series with girdraulics? Prices have had peaks and falls before, I paid £18000 in 1989 for a White Shadow only to have to sell in 1992 and get just £11000. 2016 was a peak again in prices according to the Graph in Tim Kingham's excellent book, At the moment 50's 60's British bikes are losing prices and losing the buyers of them due to old age of the buyers and sellers, 70's 80's Japanese are doing much better.
I have only a passing interest in cars, but are comparable vehicle prices dropping in that field also, Bentley, Bugatti, Jaguar etc. Lets hope so, I have always fancied a Blower Bentley before I pass on!
Sorry but its a series C with RC frame number. Just because its HRD doesn't make it series B as the change from HRD to Vincent had nothing to do with the different series. The first 7 months of series C were all HRD.
I recall a pretty nice Black Shadow in Denver, Colorado selling for $65,000 US and that was about 20 years ago. I haven't seen too much up-down since then.
Very suspect numbers and paperwork. Some would say fraudulent and fake. You need to look at good, honest machines to compare prices and also where and when the sales are taking place. I am brokering a sale of a Rapide that is a total bitsa BUT the engine is good. Looking at about the equivalent of £26-28,000. Last year I assisted in a sale of a very nice and original C Rapide for £37,000.