During 60 years, Lee Hartung collected, collected, collected… Dale Walksler of Wheels Through Time travels to Chicago to help America Auctions go through the coveted Lee Hartung collection. First Day looking through it and Dale pulls out 5 motorcycles to get them running. Auction of these machines and many others is November 3-5, 2011 in Glenview, Illinois. More info at Auctions America By RM.
Lee Hartung Amazing Vintage Motorcycles Collection
Published by October 28th, 2011 in Builders, Editorial and Events.24 Responses to “Lee Hartung Amazing Vintage Motorcycles Collection”
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Wow! All I can say is wow…….
Dust, dirt, grease & memories. Fun stuff. 🙂
Absolutely wonderful stuff!
How can anyone give a crap about the Tuetels, build-offs, Hoka Hey foolishness, etc, when there is REAL motorcycle stuff like this going on?
OH man , I just want to be there and go through the piles , awesome.
Lee Hartung was a great guy! Been to his place half a dozen times. Took listeners up there for a ride/tour several times. In the past half dozen years or so he started giving less and less tours but if you called up for an appt he’d oblige. If he had one of something he had a hundred. Wonderful collection of STUFF! I’ll have to dig up those interviews on the radio….he had a great sense of humor and loved what he did and loved showing his collection to folks!. It’s too bad the town of Glenview always gave him grief and hassled him instead of honoring his place with a museum license or whatever they needed to do to make it easier for him to show to the world.. he fought them for years! God speed Lee Hartung and thank you for having such passion in all your years of collecting!
Dale – are you still in town? Where you staying? I plan on attending….
could have watched an hour long video of that stuff…what I wouldnt give to find just one of those in an old barn!
WISH I WAS THERE! Man this is super cool!! peace
WOW… $20 to get in, 15% buyers premium on purchase price and 9.25% Chicago tax added to all of that. For every $100 you bid, you’ll actually pay roughly $125. He had very cool and rare stuff in his collection, but the auction company and the City is gonna make a killing. Still might be cool to see in person though.
I love this kind of stuff…. its getting rarer and rarer these days
Very, Very Cool !!!!!!!
Over & Out,
Jeff
puts chills down my spine to see those machines run after seting so long, what a testement to american craftmenship… the way it use to be. that is the way it should be today. you can still fine that pride in the small builders today, great story
BTW if you haven’t been to Dale’s “Wheels Through Time” Museum in Maggie Valley, NC, it is a must do for anyone who really loves motorcycles. I live about an hour an a half away and can’t get enough of it. Truly a World Class display. CLASS ACT!
Amazing this stuff was stashed just a few miles from my front door! wow!
I´ve already seen the videos a couple of days ago … really amazing stuff. Somebody should buy it all and put it into a huge museum.
Most valuable dust.
Great. A lot of work coming to restoration shops.
WOW!
How about getting them all running at the same time, on a mile track, going round’ and round’ ?
Love seeing this old stuff. And Dale, you look pretty good too, my friend!
Nice work on showing the world these beautiful, old machines. Glad they are out of the barn for people to enjoy!
WOW: I am amazed at how many still run. Would love to have the budget to bid on these and I too would love to pick the piles of parts and stuff.
WAY, WAY, COOL!!! Myself, right now in my shop I got a ’37 Harley Flathead [bored out to 86 c.i.], a ’40 Harley Flathead 74 [it fell off the trailer commin’ back from the swap meet this weekend BUMMER!!], a ’47 Knuckle, and a ’50 Vincent Black Shadow [Yeah, you heard me!!]. I LOVE that old STUFF!!! Wiz
That is the coolest thing ever. What a dream to be able to go through there –and firing up a 50+ year old bike… awesome!