PARTS AND MEMORABILIA is open for business! Got some nice but unused stuff hanging around? Projects that gotta go? Don't get off on the ebay thing? Send a pic and price it right, we'll get it posted! Inventory is building, so keep an eye on the items offered!

The auctions in Las Vegas are history, and prices held up very nicely on all fronts. Full details  can be found on the MidAmerica Website: www.midamericaauctions.com

The BIGGER auction news is that RM Microcar Museum Auction that was held in Mid-February, just outside of Atlanta. I had gone to pick up a neat King Midget, maybe an Isetta, and the museum owner Bruce Weiner had a few bikes that looked reasonable as to expected prices. The estimates on those little foreign three and four wheelers seemed high, but who knows, right?

Well, his Vespas went for top dollar, between $7-10,000 the first day, and some of the microcars TOPPED $120,000-keep in mind the 15% Buyers premium on top of that. Memorabilia and models were OFF THE CHARTS, as were the vending machines: a coin-op motel clock, like those at the motel I grew up in in Cincy- went for $7500! YIPES! A toaster made out of a Honda gastank went for $1750--a Cuby motor went for $1250! Then a 16" Vespa MODEL sold for $7000-HUH!? Things were getting crazy by midday Saturday, then someone paid $322,000 for a 1958 FMR Tg500 Tiger--what the heck is that!

All in all, if that auction is any indication of our economy, people are throwing money at hard assets again--and bikes have a much broader appeal than most of the stuff that was at that auction. There won't be another auction like that for a long time, so I assume those buyers plan to buy a large casket, and take their microcars with them! For full details and prices go to: www.rmauctions.com.

Enjoy the ride, and thanks for visiting!