Greatest barn find ever!

[feral1]

Hi guys,

First time for me posting in the vintage bikes section of KB, but check this out.

If you think you've amassed a bit of a collection, think again. You wont believe the late Lee Hartung's collection... Unreal, beautiful teen's and twenties american motorcycle history here.

Dale at the Wheels Thru Time museum is helping the actioneers sort it all.

Check out the videos; http://www.wheelsthroughtime.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=417


Regards
Feral

[unstuck]

What a find. I would be all chubby finding something like that.

[AllanC]

Just imagine walking through that shed!

[feral1]

Just imagine walking through that shed!

Wouldn't it just be something :)

[AllanC]

Wouldn't it just be something :)

probably wouldn't get me outta there for days

[HenryDorsetCase]

I'd like one of those Harly 45's. I love the big front wheel, low front, big handlebar huge light look.

[Wingnut]

That is mean! Love it. Thanks for the link.

[action man]

Beautiful.

But what a crime hiding them away he should give back to the community and sell for minimum profit

[feral1]

I don't know man...
Collecting one years junk, can become next years treasure. I mean, this guy just collected to what to others in the 30's, 40's and 50's would have just been seen as past it, clapped out junk.

Good on him for stashing it away, I say. I real time capsule, and a ohh, so awesome, private collection.
Bless him

Feral

[Paul in NZ]

Beautiful.

But what a crime hiding them away he should give back to the community and sell for minimum profit


Bollox - the man should get market value and a friggin medal for protecting these treasures for others to enjoy.

Sure its true thet mostly these guys get this stuff when most people consider they are junk but they have enough vision and commitment to put it away for the future. Having said that I have met a few similar people over the years and they usually go without a lot of creature comforts to obtain and collect these items.

In my lifetime I've known people that thought so little of a 741B Indian they simply rode them to the dump and left em there. I've dug up a driveway that had a 1908 Hupomobile as reinforcing and my own father dumped a small warehouse full of brand new Ford Model A spares because he couldn't give them away. Crimes now but logical then.

[feral1]

You're right on Paul

Regards
Eric

[jellywrestler]

I've dug up a driveway that had a 1908 Hupomobile as reinforcing now that would have been worth a mint since they didn't start making them till 1909, was it a prototype or something?

[Paul in NZ]

now that would have been worth a mint since they didn't start making them till 1909, was it a prototype or something?

Mate - it was a twisted wreck of an ancient chassis that the even more ancient twisted wreck of a home owner that buried the thing in the first place told me it was a 1908 Hupomobile.... We didn't have the internet then so we have to rely on ancient twisted old guys for information... They were just about as reliable but with less porn...

[jellywrestler]

Mate - it was a twisted wreck of an ancient chassis that the even more ancient twisted wreck of a home owner that buried the thing in the first place told me it was a 1908 Hupomobile.... We didn't have the internet then so we have to rely on ancient twisted old guys for information... They were just about as reliable but with less porn...

yeah just a pisstake...

[Paul in NZ]

Actually its me that was wrong.... I was talking to my mate who shanghaied me into helping smash up the concrete and he said it was a 1928 Hupomobile ans some guy took the chassis away. That shocked me as it was utterly utterly rooted....

(yes I realise you were teasing me)

I can't say I've ever seen one in the flesh....

[jellywrestler]

That shocked me as it was utterly utterly rooted....

one mans meat is another mans poison...