I had the pleasure of a personal tour with Mr Ian Boyd in May 2017, what a honour, If you want to have a visit I suggest you use these contact details Ian Boyd Phone/Fax 08 9652 1044 PO Box 89 Jurien Bay Western Australia Be sure to leave a donation on your way out.
Worth more than 10 million now, he has a ex racer black lightning also, been up there for a look. He started buying them up in the 80s , would love to know what prices he was paying, nice bloke, that's all he does most days is show people around his stunning collection
Beautiful collection indeed. I am fortunate enough to live near to Conway Motors, the Vincent specialists in the UK. They are happy to work on my Ariel engines for me and they take the same care as they would the Vincents.
Wow ! Just amazed looking at his collection and the smile on his face shows how much he is found of them. No money can substantiate the happiness of possessing those beauties .. 👍 respect from India ! 👍
Realy sad thing is Very few people have any idea that in a little fishing town in West Australia, a couple hundred kilometres north of the city, is this unbelievable collection. I drive past every time i head to Perth on the recently finalized Indian Ocean Drive and often wonder why there isn't a sign on the main road to let folks know its there. It deserves to be seen.
Wonderful collection put together by a real lover of Vincent motorcycles, thanks for sharing this and long may the collection keep together and possibly grow, if that's possible, as there seems to be about everything here right here!
Talking of Tom McQuade. He went over the lights on his sidecar at Claremont. He was the best by the length of the Claremont back straight. He learnt to master sidecars in the dried up clay holes while travelling around the country shearing.
Indeed but the funny thing is all these guys pushed the prices up to silly levels …. Prices are now dropping so fast as the age of owners means they can no longer ride (Covid didn’t help of course). I would love a Knight or Prince but they will sit in owners garages till as they wont sell for what they will soon be worth. Not much 😇
@@tigdurrant8939 when the price of a Vincent becomes the same as the price of a new Harley-Davidson people will buy them from their previous owners to take a very big monetary loss. Just because people jack up the price of something to an unattainable level does it mean that it's going to stay there forever. There comes a point when people will not pay Philly money for something. They are a good motorcycle but they are overhyped. Brand new they were the price of an Indian 80 cubic inches chief
The saddest part in life is. When you have all your precious bikes. You earned them. By a very hardwork on each bikes you waste youre sweat and energy every second just for to bought a bike for the happiness of you.. But then you realize that youre now An old man. That anytime you will leave the world and you will never see the favourite and precious bikes that youve been earned for a long long time... :(
The claremont speedway Vincent sidecar that is up there was not built by Tom Mc Quade. It was built by and owned and raced by Harry Taylor at Claremont with passenger Alby Hutts and sold to Mc Quade many years later.
Yes. It was an export only colour, available during the first year of production. I have a book from 1971 with a photo of a brand new Rocket 3 in this vivid green colour. It looks stunning!
Two entirely different animals. Crawfish are freshwater crustaceans while lobsters are marine crustaceans. Crawfish belong to the super family of Parastacoidea and Astacoidea while lobsters belong to the family to Nephropidae or Homaridae.
You could take the view that he is saving them from a worse fate. I would say that resisting the temptation to sell them off constitutes the opposite of greed but then i don't begrudge someone capable for amassing a collection of the objects of their passion.
