1947 FL Knucklehead

[oddmystic]

Up for sale is a 1947FL completely restored, all original parts, has 1336miles on rebuilt motor and tranny.
Flanders bars and risers, original deluxe seat, also have the buddy seat.
Matching cases, original tanks oil bag etc...
Too much too list.
Send me a message and I will get back to you and can also send you more pictures plus phone number.
Has clear WA title

asking $29.000

[oddmystic]

!!!SOLD!!!

[rudy]

anybody got a thought on what a good 95% complete 47 basket is worth? .070 over. (i was thinking it might be worth more parting out)

[dane]

any photos? Might consider making offer on whole bike. Let me know. Thanks. 860-465-7922

[Lloyd]

Rudy, It would be a shame to part it out, but worth more maybe. Please try to sell it as a whole. If you part it out thats one less bike for us to love!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck.... Lloyd

[schmittm]

There has been a lot of debate and discussion regarding the affect that Ebay has had on the value of parts for vintage motorcycles. The most common complaint is that Ebay has killed the swap meets and taken away the all the flee market fun of finding something you really need and bargaining with the vendor until you both reach an agreement about how much cash it will take to make the part change hands. When you make an offer these days at a swap meet most of the vendors will immediately reply that they can get twice the amount on Ebay.

What really makes me angry is that a lot of guys with basket cases have figured out that if they take the motorcycle apart down to the smallest pieces and list them separately on E-Pay they can usually get more than trying to sell the whole thing as a package. I honestly believe that this sort of thing has been happening lately to a lot of "project bikes" that have been sitting around in someone's garage or shop. The bike is already in pieces so why not sell it piece by piece instead of selling it as a complete basket case.

I could go on and on but it probably won't change the direction things are headed. I guess the best you can hope for is to get lucky and find that "barn fresh" jewel, friend of a friend, he pushed the bike in the back of mom's shed and died in Vietnam kind of a deal.

just some thoughts.....

mike

[Perry Ruiter]

Originally posted by Lloyd
Rudy, It would be a shame to part it out, but worth more maybe. Please try to sell it as a whole. If you part it out thats one less bike for us to love!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck.... Lloyd

Playing devil's advocate for a minute - if you part it out that could make 10 more bikes for us to love ... Perry

[schmittm]

Perry,

I have to admit that the availability of individual pieces is probably just as important to the hobby, we could never complete a lot of our own projects without them.

I still think its a shame to canabalize an otherwise complete bike just to make it an organ donor.

mike

[portagepan]

Hey Mike
Don't take this too serious, but a little while ago I saw the moving Vietnam Memorial Wall in Napoleon, after we escorted it. I finally had the nerve to look up my best friends name on there. That whole thing didn't have anything to do with somebody getting lucky. Thanks for letting me say that. Have a good one.
Mike

[schmittm]

Mike (portagepan),

I guess the comment I made didn't come out exactly as I intended. I was trying to refer to the old urban legends about finding finding an ad in the paper for something like a '63 Chevy for $50.00, when you get to the house an old women takes you to the barn to show you her son's new Corvette (or Harley) that he put in storage before going off to war and never returning.

I'm a Vietnam vet myself, Army, drafted in '69, 1 & 1/2 tours, came home with a purple heart and a broken heart because some of my friends didn't come home at all. You're right about the luck, the only people that got lucky in that mess were the Defense Contractors selling equipment to the government.

Last summer my wife and I were in Washington DC on vacation and toured all the monuments, I tried, but I could not go near the Wall, maybe someday.

We will never forget!

mike

If you were at Davenport this year you may have spotted my '49 FL, it never goes anywhere without both those flags flying!

[portagepan]

Thanks for your response. It took me a long time, but I started feeling kind of selfish for not doing it. When the time is right........
Mike

[c.o.]

I saw that machine in Davenport.........very nice indeed.......