Biggest BMW motorcycle collection in the world being auctioned

[Eddieb]

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi...clesbmwlotlist

The Willy Neutkens Collection of Important BMW Motorcycles
28 November 2009
The BMW Museum, Munich


From: http://users.telenet.be/tups/neutkens.htm
Willy Neutkens ... has been collecting BMW bikes starting in the early 60's, with an R66 that he still has. He does all the restoration work on the bikes himself, apart from the welding and paint.
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In 1980 he was a participant in the Paris-Dakar rally on a Yamaha XT. The collection is essentialy complete, apart from the R37. Besides that one, all the air-cooled boxers ever made are there, as are the singles, including the elusive R39, of which only a few remaining examples are known. Not all the yearly variations within one model are represented though.

Willy Neutkens passed away on October 3rd 2008. His death is not only a severe loss for his family, but also for BMW adepts around the world.

[Motu]

He hasn't got an R65 Streetracker - he died before he finished the job.

[igormortis]

Kind of a shame that it's being split up. I doubt there will ever be every kind of airhead ever made in one place ever again.

[red675]

of course no one's going to be rude enough to mention the War (well Wars really)

[Voltaire]

of course no one's going to be rude enough to mention the War (well Wars really)

yep...they made U boat engines and jet fighter engines in WW2 as well.
The BMW logo is after all a spinning propeller

[Paul in NZ]

Did BMW make an important motorcycle??? Good lord, the stuff you learn on KB...

[cs363]

of course no one's going to be rude enough to mention the War (well Wars really)

[Voltaire]

Did BMW make an important motorcycle??? Good lord, the stuff you learn on KB...

yep the R50/5 ...don't come much more impotent than that.....

[YellowDog]

As has already been said, it would be a terrible shame to break up such a collection.

I love the old beemers. Beautifully engineered.