360RUOTE - Mopeds, Scooters & Motorcycles
AUCTION
Tuesday 27 April 2021, 4 pm CET
Garage Bolaffi, Corso Verona 34/D, Torino
VIEWING
From Monday 12 to Tuesday 27 April from 10 am to 6 pm; on Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm. (Sundey closed).
Garage Bolaffi, Corso Verona 34/D, Torino
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Lot 1
175 SPORT 1954
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. 3283
Engine No. 1293704
Achilles was a West German manufacturer of mopeds and scooters from 1953 to 1957. The mopeds were equipped with single-cylinder 2-stroke engines with a displacement of 48 cc, while the scooters had,
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Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 2.100
Lot 2
ZEFFIRO 1960
Not registered, with papers.
VIN No. 501456
Engine No. 501456
In December 1955, encouraged by the success of the high-wheeled scooter, Aermacchi renewed the range by presenting the Zeffiro model, with a displacement of 125 cc, telescopic fork and exhaust pipe acting
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Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 2.600
Lot 3
GHIBLI U 1953-1955
Not registered, with papers.
VIN No. 12521324
Engine No. 12521324
At the end of the Second World War, Aeronautica Macchi, with its factory in Varese, had to reconvert its plants and decided to devote itself to the construction of motorbikes and, among these,
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Starting price: € 450 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 4
CIGNO 125 N 1952-1953
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. 1250 7996
Engine No. 1250 7996
The 125 N model, known as the Swan because of its sinuous shape that makes it resemble a swan, was presented in its final form at the Milan Bicycle and Motorcycle Show in November 1950 to the
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Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 5
CHIMERA 250 1957-1965
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. * 200 140 *
AerMacchi, founded by Giulio Macchi in Varese in 1913, was a company involved in the production of aircraft and motorbikes. The two-wheeled products of the Varese-based company stood out particularly for their
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Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 8.250
Lot 6
BICILINDRICA 250 CC 1953
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. 2500 419
Engine No. 2500 419
The Aermacchi 250 twin-cylinder was created in 1952 by the famous designer Lino Tonti, who very ingeniously coupled two two-stroke thermal units of the 125N model, known as the Cigno (Swan),
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Starting price: € 1.600 | Sold for : € 4.100
Lot 7
48 1948
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. P 010.370
Engine No. 0048/133 64
The company Alpino Motobici Srl of Stradella, in the province of Pavia, was begun by Pietro Trespidi in 1946 with its own production, with an auxiliary engine to be applied to bicycles and,
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 8
GLORIA 1963
Not registered, with papers.
VIN No. 4928
The Alfredo Focesi Company was founded in Milan in 1921 to produce bicycles, which it marketed under the Gloria, Insuperabile, MACFA and Airlog makes. Under the Gloria make, bicycles equipped with an auxiliary micromotor with
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Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 1.400
Lot 9
GLORIA 1951
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. 2521
The bicycles produced by the Alfredo Focesi Company, with the Gloria make in the racing versions, achieved many racing successes and even a World Championship under the same Gloria make. On the strength of these successes,
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Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 1.800
Lot 10
ANCORA
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. 61 702
The Milan-based Ancora Company, an offshoot of Tacchini, Pracchi & C, was founded in 1919 with the object of manufacturing bicycles, motorbikes, accessories and spare parts. Among the various models produced was a moped
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 11
50 BABY 1945/49
Not registered, without papers.
Antony Grignard was a small French manufacturer who tried his hand at building scooters under the Ardent make in the early 1950s. Among the various models offered, all with small-diameter wheels, the Baby stood out, equipped with a mini
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Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 1.900
Lot 12
LEADER 250 1960
Not registered, with papers.
VIN No. 11127
Engine No. 11127
In 1958, the British company Ariel Motorcycles presented its scooter concept with the Leader model featuring a twin-cylinder 2-stroke engine with aluminium heads, 4-speed gearbox, moulded monocoque frame
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.500
Lot 13
ARIZ 1952
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. 10785
Armido Rizzetto’s Motori ARIZ Company started producing micromotors in the early 1950s and, over the years, filed several patents for these engines. The model offered in the auction is equipped with a 48cc,
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 14
CR MOTOR ITALIA 1967
Not registered, with papers.
VIN No. 120 * 318
Engine No. 120 * 318
The velocipede company, Atala Società was founded in Milan in 1907 by Angelo Bianchi and became famous for building bicycles. In 1938, it was taken over by Cesare Rizzato from Padua, a skilled
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Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 1.300
Lot 15
LASER 1985
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. EML * 10660 *
In the mid-1980s, given the growing interest in scooters, almost all motorbike manufacturers took steps to offer one or more products in this category with their own make. Benelli was not insensitive to this and,
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Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 900
Lot 16
LEONCINO 125 1951-1962
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. L25708SS
Engine No. L16907
After the Second World War, models were needed to recover from that tragic period and Benelli came up with the motorbike of rebirth: light, 2-stroke, robust with a single-beam frame and lots of
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Starting price: € 750 | Sold for : € 2.600
Lot 17
LETIZIA 98 1952
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. L4066
Engine No. L2566
Benelli in Pesaro was the last of the five major Italian makes to resume motorbike production after the Second World War, as its factories were unfortunately the most devastated by the war. Giovanni, one
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Starting price: € 1.100 | Sold for : € 1.600
Lot 18
500 VLM 1939
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. 15-1324
Engine No. 15-1324
Benelli of Pesaro was founded in 1911 by Teresa Boni Benelli who, as a widow, wanted to ensure a future for her six children who had shown a great passion for mechanics and little inclination to
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Starting price: € 6.500 | Sold for : € 7.250
Lot 19
B 49 1949
Not registered, without papers.
Engine No. 8860
In the 1930s, the Bernardet make, with its production plant near Paris, was active in the production of sidecars but, at the end of 1948, the three brothers René, Robert and Roger began to think about converting their
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 6.750
Lot 20
REVIVAL 1984
Not registered, with papers.
Engine No. 0538
The company, Bernardi Mozzi Motor, from Zola Predosa (Bologna), active in the production and sale of spare parts for motorbikes, ventured into the construction of some mopeds in the 1980s, with reinforced frames derived
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Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 21
175 SPORT 1955
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. 9973
Engine No. TV * 15966*
In 1904, in Florence, Enzo Bianchi and Arrigo Tosi founded Beta, whose name comes from the initials of the Christian and surnames of the two partners. The first products were only bicycles, but soon
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Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 2.600
Lot 22
1946-1949
Not registered, without papers.
Motori Dardo, a Bolognese company producing auxiliary micromotors, ‘applicable to any bicycle without any modification’, as the advertising for these products stated, produced 50 cc two-stroke engines, weighing just 5.5 kg, with roller
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 1.900
Lot 23
SPARVIERO 1968
Not registered, without papers.
Engine No. 521280
Bianchi, an important cycling and motorcycling company, like many other companies of the time, equipped itself to meet the strong demand for affordable motorisation and, in 1968, presented a scooter called the
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Starting price: € 350 | Sold for : € 1.100
Lot 24
ORSETTO 1960
Not registered, without papers.
VIN No. TH 94390
In 1960, driven by the market’s great interest in scooters, Bianchi presented its own model called the ‘Orsetto’ (Bear) with a 75 cc capacity for the first prototype, later increased to 80 cc for the definitive
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Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.800
Lot 25
STELVIO 250 1950
Registered, with papers.
Engine No. 85190
In 1855, Bianchi was founded by Edoardo Bianchi, and the first motor bicycle was born in 1902 under the name of ‘Motocicletto’ and was the first in a very long series of motorbikes that contributed to writing glorious pages
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 4.700