The below sold for $72,000 at auction last weekend in the UK.
Which is actually a bargain as it is one of the last surviving WWI-era British Matchless motorcycles complete with a Vickers machine gun sidecar.
The motorbike, a Matchless-Vickers 8B2/M Russian Military model, is one of a contract of some 250 of the vehicles made for the last Tsar of Russia in 1916, then a key British ally in World War One. However, before these war chariots could be shipped to the Eastern Front the Tsar got kicked off his throne by the Revolution, stranding the bikes in England.
For more info click the below in my column at Guns.com
