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Ebay sale. item number 120515179990 Scott TT Rep 30″s. “Used for grasstracking!”. Have a laugh (2k) ish.
An interesting bike in that the 1930 frame numbers are no where near the 5417 number quoted in the advert. Both my 1929 TT reps are in the 2xxx number range, and unless Scott made 3000 bikes in 1930 it does not add up. No doubt someone will pay 5 grand for it though!
Cheers,
Rich
Hi all,
It’s already £1100 to expensive if you have to buy the forks! It isn’t a TT rep either, the engine numbers for these were RZ not FZ! You are right about the frame number, less than 4000 is about right for 1930.
Have a look at 290390766447, the most overpriced pile of bits I have ever seen! £2995 for a frame fork and engine!
The first bike could cost £4k plus to restore but the second, even if you could find the missing bits is not an economic project unless you build a special. Even the wreck that Bonhams sold at Beaulieu was better than either of these two and cheaper and that was complete bar the front mudguard and had the original reg number which neither of these have!
I just cannot understand why people pay huge prices for piles of bits when the rare and hard to find parts are long gone and what is there is in an appalling state.
Cheers for now
James
@bitsa1927 wrote:
Have a look at 290390766447, the most overpriced pile of bits I have ever seen! £2995 for a frame fork and engine!
Have a closer look… this bike is advertised as a flattank and as we all know those flattank Scotts are very, very rare 😉
The frame number on my 49 frame only starts with 51 so it must be later than that. eric
Given that Eric has a frame No. 51** on a ’49 machine I am left wondering if Shipley kept to any sort of sequential numbering towards the end, my F.S. first registered March ’50 has a frame No. 50** and as far as I can ascertain frame and engine have been together, (more or less!), from day one.
Despite the level the bids have reached there seems nothing too strange about the bidding, no shilling that I can see for example, and the bidders histories also seem reasonable.
Either they have more money than sense or they have no idea what they are getting into. Still, if they are bankers the government’ll probably bail ‘em out . . .
£2932 😯 😯 😯
How could a pile of mixed, non original and wrong parts be worth that much..? I realise each part has some individual value, but if someone thinks they’ll have an original TT rep on the road next year then think on!
I remember a quote that I’ll paraphrase:
“from the 500 original TT reps made, only 600 still exist” 😆 😆
Cheers,
Rich
theres a nice web hub now on ebay £1000 170433746040
Hmmm! Yes, well it’s either a touch of inflated “vincentitispricis” or post Christmas D.T’s resulting in finger tremours on the zero button . . .
yes twice i would have thought
You can not buy any Scott parts on ebay at a sensible price,so i think i will dismantle my bike and sell it as bits. Should make a packet!. To start off any one want the forks at £1000!!!.