Post-Sale Update: This Vincent Chopper sold for $27,000 after 29 bids on eBay.
Here’s a Harley-Davidson K model frame that’s been raked and stretched to fit a Vincent Rapide engine that had been to Lightning specs. That’s a sentence I never expected to write out before…
The short story is that the seller bought the engine and frame (which were already together, so he asks that you don’t blame him for this!) in 1974 after he discovered the Vincent marque through a neighbor. He finished the bike with parts from Harley, parts from BSA, and a Honda front wheel assembly, then had it chromed and painted Candy Apple Red. It won 1st place in the All Bike competition at the Sacramento Autorama, then the seller lost interest in choppers and it’s pretty much sat in his garage ever since. Since that time it has less than 100 miles and suffered one fall in storage which resulted in a broken clutch lever and mirror mount.
The seller has all receipts from the work done about over 40 years ago, and he believes it’s time to move on. The question is, is someone going to buy it and try to bring it back to life as is, or is everyone who’s bidding just looking for access to the engine? Find the Vintley for sale in Shingle Springs, California with bidding up to $18,401 (what’s the going rate for a Rapide/Lightning engine that needs to be restored?) and the reserve not yet met