AUCTION
Tuesday 18 October 2022, 3 p.m. | lots 1-134
Garage Bolaffi, corso Verona 34D, Torino
VIEWING
From Friday 7 to Tuesday 18 October 2022 (Sunday excluded), 11 a.m.- 6 p.m
Lanificio di Torino, via Bologna 220, Torino
Enquiries: +39 011-0199101 | info@astebolaffi.it
ATALA
48 '50s
VIN No. B5578
48cc – 2 STROKE
Without documents
Atala Società velocipedi 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 framebuilder and equally
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Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 600
GARELLI
MOSQUITO A '40s
Engine No. 360686
VIN No. 20957
38cc – 2 STROKE
Without documents
The Mosquito micromotor, designed and manufactured by Meccanica Garelli, was one of the leading lights of motorisation, and not just in our country. A straightforward idea and
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Starting price: € 350 | Estimate : € 500 - 800 | Sold for : € 620
GARELLI
MOSQUITO 38 B '50s
Engine No. 916886
38cc – 2 STROKE
Without documents
The Garelli Mosquito was the most complete evolution of the motorised bicycle concept. Presented in 1946 with the model 38A equipped with an original single-cylinder two-stroke 38cc engine with roller transmission
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Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 600 - 1.000 | Sold for : € 400
GARELLI
VELO MOSQUITO 38 B '50s
Engine No. 870723
38cc – 2 STROKE
Without documents
The Garelli Velo Mosquito 38 B was the most complete evolution of the motorised bicycle concept. The Mosquito 38 B was fitted with an original BMG frame built
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Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 600 - 1.000 | Sold for : € 450
ITOM
TOURIST 1958
Engine No. 42011
VIN No. 74618
50cc – 2 STROKE
With documents
The Tourist micromotor, produced by ITOM, was one of the most versatile auxiliary motors with roller transmission, lending itself to being applied with ease in a central position between
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 950
ITOM
ALBA 48 TR '50s
Engine No. 19888
VIN No. T2583
48cc – 2 STROKE
Without documents
In the winter of 1953 ITOM, presented the Alba 48TR model with a single-beam frame with a pressed-metal swinging arm and shock absorber positioned at
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 600
SOLEX
VELOSOLEX 1985
Engine No. 2971818
VIN No. 3001175
49cc – 2 STROKE
With document
The Velosolex was among the most representative products of the drive generated by the need to move in the immediate post-war period.
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 850
DERNY
98 '30s
Engine No. 367819
98cc – 2- STROKE
Not registered, without documents
Derny, a motorbike brand founded by Frenchman Roger Derny, with the collaboration of his sons, all of whom were cyclists, designed and built a series of motorised bicycles that were used as
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.600
AERMACCHI
CIGNO N '50s
Engine No. 2505B
VIN No. 12504662
125cc – 2 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
Encouraged by the success of the high-wheeled scooter, at the Milan Motorcycle Show in November 1950 Aermacchi presented the N
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 4.500
INNOCENTI
LAMBRETTA A 1948
Engine No. 5012
VIN No. 5975
125cc – 2 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
The first scooter projects to be developed in Innocenti's Lombard Opificio (factory) date back to 1945; the occupation by the allied troops
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Starting price: € 2.500 | Estimate : € 3.500 - 5.500 | Sold for : € 7.500
INNOCENTI
LAMBRETTA C 1951
Engine No. 52438
VIN No. 53619
125cc – 2 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
The Lambretta is one of the most representative and original scooters, built on the concepts of simplicity and
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 4.500 | Sold for : € 1.600
INNOCENTI
LAMBRETTA C '50s
Engine No. 86579*
VIN No. 111159*
125cc – 2 STROKE
With documents
The Lambretta is one of the most representative and original scooters, built on concepts of simplicity and reliability that has been the secret of enormous commercial success for
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
INNOCENTI
LAMBRETTA 125D '50s
Engine No. 54239
VIN No. 104089
125cc – 2 stoke
With documents
A natural evolution of the C, the Lambretta D was born in December 1951, initially with 125cc displacement, equipped with numerous mechanical improvements to make it more powerful and reliable. Riding
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 4.500 | Sold for : € 2.200
INNOCENTI
LAMBRETTA J 125 1966
Engine No. 155106
VIN No. 155106
125cc – 2-Stroke
Not registered, with documents
The constant search for new market segments to conquer with its scooters led Innocenti to propose increasingly high-performance and aesthetically attractive models. In January 1964,
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.700
MOTO GUZZI
GALLETTO 192 1955
Engine No. 92 BOH
VIN No. 92 BOH
192cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, with documents
The Moto Guzzi Galletto was presented in the spring of 1950 and, like all motorbikes produced in Mandello del Lario, was original,
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
RUMI
SCOIATTOLO 1951
125cc – 2 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
Moto Rumi did not miss the opportunity to motorise the country and, given the strong demand for inexpensive motorised vehicles, jumped into the fray by proposing its own vision of a scooter, which combined the
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Estimate : € 4.500 - 8.000
RUMI
FORMICHINO 1956
VIN No. 25580
125cc – 2 STROKE
Without documents
From the inspiration of Donnino Rumi, the Formichino arrived in 1954, in the wake of the successes of Piaggio and Innocenti. This scooter had a load-bearing frame made of aluminium and consisted of a front part
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Starting price: € 4.500 | Estimate : € 5.000 - 10.000
RUMI
FORMICHINO 1956
Engine No. R125*4052
VIN No. 25841
125cc – 2 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
Launched in 1954, in the wake of the successes of Piaggio and Innocenti, the Formichino had a load-bearing frame made
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Starting price: € 4.500 | Estimate : € 5.000 - 10.000 | Sold for : € 5.000
JAWA
350 SIDECAR 1978
Engine No. 634-7-018038
VIN No. 322651
350cc – 2 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
Jawa is a motorbike company founded in Prague in 1929. The motorbikes produced have always been characterised by simplicity, so much so that mainly two-stroke engines were
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 2.900
NORTON
M18 - SIDECAR '30s
Engine No. W572 - A32163
VIN No. W572 - A32163
500 cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
James Lansdowne Norton founded his motorbike company in Wolverhampton in 1898 and began production of motorbikes equipped with Swiss and French-built engines. In
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Starting price: € 5.000 | Estimate : € 6.500 - 13.000 | Sold for : € 5.000
AERMACCHI
ALA D'ORO 1968
Engine No. V642
VIN No. 171024
250cc – 4 STROKE
Without documents
In the post-war years, many companies, contributed to the mass “motorization” of society, among them a significant name was Aermacchi, the famous aircraft builder. In the mid-1950s it began
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Starting price: € 18.000 | Estimate : € 22.000 - 35.000
BENELLI
125 SPORT SPECIAL '60s
Engine No. 10655
VIN No. 440559
125cc – 4-speed
With documents
At the end of the 1960s, Benelli of Pesaro, to meet the needs of newly-licensed 16-year-olds, put into production a 125 called the Sport
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Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 2.000 | Sold for : € 1.800
BENELLI
GENTLEMEN 1968
VIN No. GO-BEN 30135
49cc – 2 STROKE
With documents
At the start of the 1960s, many local motorcycle manufacturers began to produce and market mopeds with automatic transmission, characterised by low purchase and running costs and a certain reliability, ideal for
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Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 600 - 1.000 | Sold for : € 400
BENELLI
TORNADO 650 1972
Engine No. *5607*
VIN No. EA *5366*
650cc – 4 STROKE
With documents
The famous Pesaro-based company Benelli was founded in 1911 by Teresa Boni Benelli. After the success of many of its models in different displacements, the company decided to put a new model
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 3.700
BIANCHI
AQUILOTTO '40s
Engine No. 152027
VIN No. 3041833422
42cc – 2-speed
Without documents
Bianchi, an important bicycle and motorbike manufacturer, at the end of World War II, when the reconstruction of the country was underway and means of transport had to be as cheap as they were
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Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 2.000 | Sold for : € 1.800
BIANCHI
BIANCHINA '50s
Engine No. 94251
VIN No. 94251
125cc – 2 STROKE
With documents
Bianchi was founded in 1855 by Edoardo Bianchi as a bicycle manufacturer. The first motor bicycle was born in 1902 under the name 'motocicletto' and would be the first in a very long series of
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 2.300
BIANCHI
MENDOLA 1956
Engine No. 174717
VIN No. 174717
125cc – 2 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
Bianchi was founded in 1855 by Edoardo Bianchi, a company always oriented towards the design and marketing of reliable and robust motorbikes. It continued to maintain these
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000
BM
DAI-DAI 1972
Engine No. DGM 67550M
VIN No. BMZ*09480*
5Occ – 2 STROKE
With documents
Moto BM, a company founded in 1952 by Bonvicini Marino in Rastignano Pianoro (Bologna), from 1953 to 1955, it produced a 75cc ‘Lusso’ with a four-stroke engine, the 100cc Turismo and the Lusso
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Starting price: € 125 | Estimate : € 250 - 500 | Sold for : € 200
BSA
MODEL H 1923
Engine No 4741
557cc – 4 STROKE
Without documents
BSA (Birmingham Small Arms), a company founded in 1861 as a manufacturer of light
arms, then equipped itself in the post-war period to diversify production by looking with
considerable interest at the motorbike
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Starting price: € 7.000 | Estimate : € 9.000 - 12.000 | Sold for : € 9.000
BSA
C10 1939
Engine No. XCIOT3910
VIN No. 22326
250cc - 4-Stroke - Not registered, without documents
BSA, an acronym for Birmingham Small Arms, founded in 1861 as a manufacturer of small arms, equipped itself during the war period to produce motorbikes for the Army, fitted with
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 2.100
BSA
M20 '30s
Engine No. 87355
VIN No. YM203173
250cc - 4-Stroke - Not registered, without documents
BSA, an acronym for Birmingham Small Arms, founded in 1861 as a manufacturer of small arms, during the Second World War also equipped itself to produce motorbikes for the Army,
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Estimate : € 4.500 - 8.000 | Sold for : € 3.800
CAPRONI
CAPRIOLO 75 TV '60s
Engine No. 30239
VIN No. 30236
75cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
The joint-stock company Aero-Caproni-Trento, founded in 1940 by the engineer Gianni Caproni of Taliedo, later became Aeromere S.p.A., at
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.700
CAPRONI
CAPRIOLO 125 DE LUXE '60s
Engine No. 62729
VIN No. 62571
125cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
Aeromere S.p.A. of Trento, a well-known industry that arose from the merger of Aero Caproni S.p.A., continued with the design and
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.700
CZ
150 C '50s
Engine No. 476943
VIN No. 4-10-1220
150cc – 2 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
CZ, an acronym for Česká Zbrojovka, a Czechoslovakian company that produced light arms for the army during the First World War,
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.800
DUCATI
125 '50s-'60s
Engine No. 202789
VIN No. 202891
125cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
In the period between the 1950s and 1960s, Ducati proposed several models of motorbikes with 125cc displacements equipped with a single-cylinder 4-stroke engine with a single
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 3.600
DUCATI
175 SPORT 1961
Engine No. 07045
VIN No. 07177
175cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, with documents
Ducati Meccanica was founded in 1926 in Borgo Panigale, near Bologna, between the 1950s and 1960s, to meet the needs of users who were looking for versatile, economical, sturdy and
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Estimate : € 5.000 - 10.000 | Sold for : € 6.750
DUCATI
450 CORSA '70s
Engine No. 116507
VIN No. 450SX461228
450cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
Ducati Meccanica presented the Desmo at the Turin Motor Show in 1971, with the famous desmodromic distribution on which
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 2.700
FB MONDIAL
125 LUSSO '50s
Engine No. L17085
VIN No. L17085
125cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
FB Mondial, founded in 1929 in Milan, was characterised in the post-war period by the production of fast and often
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 4.500 | Sold for : € 1.900
FB MONDIAL
175 TV '50s
Engine No. 01235
VIN No. 01235
175cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
In the 1950s the most common displacement was the 175cc and, at the 1954 Milan Motor Show, Mondial presented its new 4-stroke engine, designed by Pietro Prampolini, with a single
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 2.600
FB MONDIAL
175 ST '50s
Engine No. ST2453
VIN No. ST2453
175cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
At the 1956 Milan Motor Show, Mondial presented its new 4-stroke engine, with a rocker-rod timing system, produced by the Michelini
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 2.500
GILERA
NETTUNO 250 1949
Engine No. 1418759
VIN No. 212037
250 – 4 STROKE
Not registered, with documents
Gilera has always been synonymous with performance and technical refinement. In this vein in the immediate post-war period, it began to produce a series of 250 cc motorbikes called
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Starting price: € 3.500 | Estimate : € 5.000 - 10.000 | Sold for : € 5.250
GILERA
B300 '50s
VIN No. * 31 * 9453
300cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
In the 1950s, Gilera decided to offer a few models that would be of interest to users in order to stem the tide of fierce competition in the intermediate displacement
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.800
GILERA
G 175 EXTRA '50s
Engine No. 103*2418
VIN No.103*2418
175cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
The 175 Gilera was presented in 1956, the last of the Giubileo series models, which represented a further evolutionary step towards the pursuit of performance without
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.200
GILERA
150 TURISMO 1952
Engine No. *191*6750
VIN No. *191*6750
150 cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, without documents
In the immediate post-war period there was huge demand for motorcycles of all types, and motorbike manufacturers did not miss this important opportunity. Gilera
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.600
GILERA
G 175 ROSSO EXTRA 1958
Engine No. 1895255
VIN No. 1895255
175cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, with documents
In 1957, the Gilera Rosso Extra arrived, the most powerful of the entire Giubileo series, powered by the classic single-cylinder
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 2.500
GILERA
GIUBILEO 98 1960
Engine No. *001*20245*
VIN No. *001*20245*
98cc – 4 STROKE
Not registered, with documents
Launched in 1959 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its foundation, the Giubileo series had its
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 2.700