Well in 2000, my cuz got me to sell his unfinished 1915 Indian "Power Plus" for him on Ebay, A dealer in germany bought it for $7500.00 US which included a spare frame, wheels, tinware etc and still complained because it apparently had the wrong model carb on it, so I reminded him that he was also bidding on another (restored) Power Plus that was sitting on $16000.00 with 3 days to go, (eventually went for $30K) so he had plenty of margin for profit, on almost two complete bikes. Kinda left a bad taste in my mouth, and started me wondering about "collectors" as a whole?
Hard times hit my cuz again a year later, so I sold his Indian 4 engine (another unfinished project) on Ebay for him for around $5K, this time the winner was in Canada, he paid by bank transfer, but didn't like my shipping quote, so organised his own. All I did was help lift the crate into the back of the courier van. As I said, he organised the shipping, but then got snakey with me because he hadn't received the crate and demanded his money back? I told him to f*ck off, anyway, he eventually received it and sent me an apology and some pics of his restored bike, but I decided then and there that collectors of expensive vintage bikes are all dickheads.
My cuz now owns a beautiful restored 1948 Chief with a sidecar, he got it for the bargain price of $15K (with an original factory sidecar) and I told him that if he ever decides to sell it, he can do it himself, I'm sick of Indian collectors, ha ha! Cheers, Terry.
