CLASSIC CARS AND MOTORCYCLES
LA PISTA
Via Manuel Fangio, Lainate (MI)
The auction will take place in the building that stands alongside the original test track of the Alfa Romeo factory in Arese, just outside of Milan. In addition to the “static” car show, there will also be an exhibition – a world first in an auction – where attendees will be able to watch some of the cars cruise on the track.
With rare automobiles and racing motorcycles, unique specimens and Stile Bertone prototypes, Aste Bolaffi enters the motor vehicle sector.
AUCTION Wednesday 23 May 2018 3.30 pm (lots 1-90)
VIEWING from Sunday 20 to Tuesday 22 May 2018 10.00 am - 7.00 pm
VIEWING UPON REQUEST Wednesday 23 May 2018 10.00 am - 2.30 pm
Lot 1
MILLER
BALSAMO 200 CARENATA
Balsamo brothers of Milano, dealers in American Excelsior motorcycles, started in the 1920s the production of their motorcycles with the brand Miller Balsamo. Over the years, the production of engines was expanded to include capacities ranging from 98 to 250 cc. In
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| Sold for : € 10.000
Lot 2
BSA
SLOPER 500
Founded in Birmingham in 1861, the Birmingham Small Arms Company, better known as BSA, was a producer of small arms, especially rifles, that quickly became considered the very best in its field. Several decades later it embarked on motorcycle manufacturing and excelled
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| Sold for : € 9.000
Lot 3
BSA
GOLD STAR CATALINA 500
Numerous models bearing the company’s distinctive three crossed rifles logo were very successful, and one of them was certainly the BSA Catalina. This Catalina was produced in 1959, and it is one of the very few survivors of the 800 built between 1959 and 1963. Mainly
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Estimate : € 13.000 - 15.000
Lot 4
SUPERBA
175
In the wake of the two World Wars, businesses were keen to convert their original production activities. The transport sector was undoubtedly one of the most prolific one and indeed many companies began producing vehicles to contribute to Italy’s motorization; these
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Estimate : € 7.000 - 9.000
Lot 5
DELAGE
175 CORSA
The Delage brand was founded in 1905 by Louis Delage in Levallois Perret, about 150 km from Paris. For around half a century, the company focused on the production of luxury cars and competition cars, airplanes and, in very limited numbers, motorcycles, which were
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| Sold for : € 9.000
Lot 6
TRIUMPH
TRIDENT 750 KOELLIKER
The first races specifically organized for derivatives of standard production motorcycles were held in America at the start of the 1970s and they soon arrived in Europe too, with the Formula C750 races, and in Italy in the form of classic endurance races. From the
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Estimate : € 28.000 - 32.000
Lot 7
KAWASAKI
MOTOPLAST 1166
Duranti and Stanga’s Motoplast brand was created in the 1970s in Soncino (in the Italian province of Cremona). The company quickly became a highly regarded producer of fiberglass fairings and high quality special parts, even going so far as to design and build complete
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Estimate : € 23.000 - 27.000
Lot 8
TRIUMPH
TRIDENT 830 ROB NORTH
For the European motorcycle industry, the end of the 1960s can be regarded as the start of one of its less fortunate periods because it was the time the Japanese motorcycles began arriving on our markets. The British focused on an engine with a three-cylinder
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Estimate : € 21.000 - 25.000
Lot 9
AERMACCHI
ALA D'ORO 250
In the post-war years, many companies, contributed to the mass “motorization” of society, among them a significant name was Aermacchi, the famous aircraft builder. In the mid-1950s it began producing a 175 cc motorcycle called “Chimera”: its engine, with its
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| Sold for : € 18.500
Lot 10
AMF HARLEY-DAVIDSON
250 RA
In 1963 the Italian motorcycle manufacturer Aermacchi signed a commercial agreement with the company Harley-Davidson to distribute the Varese-built motorcycles in the United States and to create motorcycle company with a joint brand, AMF Harley-Davidson. This
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Estimate : € 21.000 - 25.000