All Top Gear Duo Motorcycles Sell; Record $3.3 Million Sold at Bonhams Spring Stafford Sale

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Published on April 28, 2015
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Lot 394: A 1939 Vincent HRD Series-A Rapide sold for $422,177.

• This year’s Bonhams Spring Stafford Sale surpassed all previous years’ totals, achieving a record $3.3 million, with 86 percent sold.
• Once rescued from being scrapped, the 1939 Vincent HRD Series-A Rapide motorcycle was the top lot of the sale, selling for $422,177.
• 100 percent of the 12 motorcycles consigned by Top Gear duo James May and Richard Hammond sold, achieving a collective $118,766
• British machines proved popular: the 1937 Brough Superior 1,096cc 11-50hp sold for more than three times top estimate, a total $225,063; the 1930 Brough Superior OHV 680 Black Alpine sold for $211,354; and the 1955 Vincent 998cc Black Shadow Series-D sold at $110,252.

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