Where to Find an
Antique
Motorcycle
for
Sale
It is getting more difficult in some ways to find an antique motorcycle for sale that is truly authentic and affordable. On the other hand, locating vintage bikes to restore and the discontinued motorcycle parts to get them running again has actually gotten easier due to improved parts search engines and online auctions. Tips and suggestions on how to restore antique motorcycles are swapped all the time on discussion boards and forums. These message boards are also great places to get ideas on places to look for vintage motorcycles, frames and parts.
Remember when we used to hear stories about some lucky guy who was about to tear down an old barn and found a perfectly preserved although slightly dusty motorcycle under a pile of hay? Talk about finding a needle in a haystack! Chances are anyone who does find an old motorcycle in the barn is not going to offer that antique motorcycle for sale. People are educated as to the values of antiques and will hold onto them rather than risk offering a rare antique motorcycle for sale at too cheap a price.
Here are some suggestions on where to find your dream antique motorcycle for sale.
- Online classified ads where motorcycles for sale by private owner are posted
- Small town newspapers
- The local motorcycle repair shop
- Antique motorcycle restoration newsgroups
It helps to have photographs of the antique motorcycle that you are looking for in hand when you go out digging for leads. Believe it or not, not everyone can picture what an antique 1949 Indian Sport Scout motorcycle looks like and may have one in the back of their garage and not be aware of it. Don't take a chance on missing an opportunity to find the antique motorcycle for sale because of a technicality. Cruise around and try to find an accurate antique motorcycle photo if at all possible. You would hate to follow an antique motorcycle for sale ad across the country only to find that it was not the bike you thought it was.
If you find a classified ad for an antique Harley Davidson motorcycle for sale, ask the seller of the motorcycle to scan some pictures and send them to you. Before you hire a bike hauler or rent a motorcycle trailer and strike out on a road trip to pick it up you want to be sure that it's the antique Harley-Davidson motorcycle that you want. Offer to pay for the photograph if necessary and when dealing with older people who are not online this would be a very considerate thing to do and will save you money in the long run. While you're waiting on the photographs to arrive in the mail you may want to do some homework and study and antique motorcycle price list to be sure that the seller is offering an antique motorcycle for sale at a reasonable price.
Don't be shy, let it be known that you are looking for an antique motorcycle for sale by private owner. You may need to find more than one of your desired make and model antique motorcycle for sale. The cheap approach to motorcycle restoration is often to buy one vintage motorcycle for parts and combine the two bikes to get one completely restored antique motorcycle. For that matter even two bikes might not get the job done. I know specialists that have shopped for years for a particular antique motorcycle for sale just to get one certain part from it to use in their antique motorcycle restoration project. Needless to say these guys usually have several antique motorcycles that they're working on at any given time.
I can only imagine how many rusty old Harleys have been tossed in the dump by people who thought that the motorcycle could not be restored. So many parts could have been sold piece by piece as salvage motorcycle parts rather than classified as nothing more than scrap metal. If you see a rusty old antique motorcycle for sale that you think is hopeless please reconsider and look at the value of each individual antique motorcycle part.
Here is a list of popular antique motorcycles for sale:
- Antique Honda motorcycles
- Antique Harley-Davidson motorcycles
- Antique excelsior motorcycles
- Antique triumph motorcycles
Okay so now you've accomplished finding the perfect antique motorcycle for sale do a little research on antique motorcycle paint and antique motorcycle leather and show some respect for that prize piece of machinery!
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