brand new midnight special

[dott1]

hey guys a friend of mind just phoned me and said he found a 1980 midnight special 1100 still in the crate and that they are open to offers .i havent seen it but acording to my buddy they opened one side of the crate so u can see it and all the original packing is still there.any ideas what i should offer?

[foreda]

Hmmm

I'd be interested in bidding on that!!

[oseaghdha]

Probably offer to sell it and take a commission on the final auction price.

If they really have one in the crate, and if they have any sense it would bring respectable money.

[foreda]

Crate

It'll will probably for for big bucks. This would be one that I would reallllly like to bid on!!!

[dott1]

ha ha to funny i want the bike and was just wondering what i should offer.thats why i didnt tell you guys where it is why would i want to bid against all u guys.so far only about 10 people know about it

[CatatonicBug]

Wow!! In the crate!!?? That should go in a museum! Easilly worth $10k-$15k USD.

[Larrym]

operators standing by....

Umm...Isn't this the point where I use Western Union to wire some money to someone I've never met?? Please, allow me to at least give you my credit card number and the secret number on the back, ok?

From the "too good to be true" naysayer....

[cueball]

Wher do these wankers come from and what do we have to do to get rid of them

[Guy_b_g]

Could be a scam I guess, but maybe not.

There used to be a guy in Portland OR who owned a Triumph/Norton dealership with a warehouse full of oem parts and a bunch of original bikes still in the crates. He was a "difficult" man and hard to get parts away from unless you wanted to pay extremely high prices. I used to drive past his building all the time in Portland through the '70s and early '80s...then a few years ago there was a write up in a national cycle magazine that someone had bought out his treasure trove of museum quality bikes and the pile of oem parts.

Stranger things have happened than a lone MNS being found in a crate.

[Bigfoot]

That and the guy wasn't trying to sell it here, just trying to get an idea of value. Nice find Dott1.

[TopCatGr58]

Hey Dott1,

These bikes sold for around $3,500 give or take depending on location, model, etc.! Even in the crate, it's hard to say what the condition of the rubber components are going to be like, and will still need new tires, new battery, complete oil/fluid changes. The 80 will be easier to get parts for vs. the 81 since the 81 was more like the XJ.

Hope you have the $$ for the bidding war your 10 aquantanences will be going thru!
And of course, IF you win it, we want lots of pictures!!

T.C.

[dott1]

ya if i was scaming wouldnt i be trying to get money from some one.i am not i only wanted to try and find a value of the bike so i could make an offer .i have not seen the bike it is 9 hours away from me.like i said a buddy phoned me and told me about it because i have a 80 1100 special and he knows i love these bikes so he was giving me a heads up on it.i have owned my bike for 20 yrs or more and would love to get my hands on it.so to the couple of rude replies get bent idiots

[foreda]

ha ha to funny i want the bike and was just wondering what i should offer.thats why i didnt tell you guys where it is why would i want to bid against all u guys.so far only about 10 people know about it

RE- Ha Ha > That's funny S!@t. You better hope you don't get me in a bidding war!!!

[thewiz]

Right ... and I've got ...

some ocean front property in Arizona .... only one lot left ... Who-wila-gimme-50 dollar, who-wila-holler-fity-dollar .... ??

Sorry, but I seriously doubt it ... post up some photos and I will gladly retract my statement.

[MaximPhil]

I am with TC on this one. A clean rebuild yes but a bike that has sat in a crate for nearly 30 years is not going to be a turn key operation.
so $2000 would be my opinion.
corrosion inplaces you have not even imaged yet
A restorers dream maybe but a riders nightmare
Phil