Buying an investment grade MV Agusta 750 Sport from the 1970s is rather like buying a Ducati green frame. There are more fakes around than genuine machines and those that are left have usually been butchered. You can still buy a brand new engine and frame for these from several sources who have the castings and jigs. There are plenty of “genuine machines” built up from these parts and registered for the road on numbers that are not correct for such a new motorcycle. Many were raced, abused and destroyed. Finding an investment grade MV Agusta 750 Sport is highly challenging and becoming more and more difficult as the best ones get squirrelled into private collections. To read the full version of this article, click the link here and subscribe free to The Inside Line. Go to Market Trends and Analysis and you will see this and other long version blogs at the bottom of the page.
Buying an investment grade MV Agusta 750 Sport
Buying an investment grade MV Agusta 750 Sport is not simple and requires excellent connections and costly due diligence. Clients who come to us for an investment grade example do so because it is usually much more cost effective than trying to navigate the market on their own, without the access to due diligence or the knowledge and skills to set them up correctly. They are also incredibly expensive to fix when things go wrong, or if difficult to find parts are missing. Restored examples can look great but require a full restoration again, because the work had been done poorly and original parts were discarded, instead of bearing the cost of restoring them, and replaced with poor replica parts. A shiny, pretty example is more often than not disguising the need for very costly rectification work, if it’s at all possible to rectify. Knowledge is required and every machine needs to go through one of the very few workshops left in the world capable of setting these machines up. Basic servicing is straight forward, but valve services need to be done by someone who understands these machines. To read the full version of this article, click the link here and subscribe free to The Inside Line. Go to Market Trends and Analysis and you will see this and other long version blogs at the bottom of the page.
MV Agusta 750 Sport due diligence
MV Agusta 750 Sport due diligence is a costly process, it takes me about three days of my work and costs me £1,200 for each machine I investigate. If this level of due diligence is not undertaken, then you have no idea what you’re buying. There are far more machines which are either complete fakes or not investment grade than there are investment grade examples. The odds are seriously outside of your favour unless the machine is properly investigated at a forensic level. Beware of examples which are claimed to be unrestored, I have inspected eight such machines and only one turned out to be unrestored. The other seven were very good restorations which were later sold as unrestored examples. What is certain is that as these machines hit seven figures, as they surely will, they will be thoroughly investigated at the level we undertake for our clients now. It is becoming harder and harder to find investment grade examples as time goes on and easier and easier to find machines not worth buying. To read the full version of this article, click the link here and subscribe free to The Inside Line. Go to Market Trends and Analysis and you will see this and other long version blogs at the bottom of the page.
Outstanding classic motorcycle investment
The MV Agusta 750 Sport is an outstanding investment if it is an investment grade example. Very few machines, apart from the green frame, Laverda 750 SFC, 1975 Ducati 900SS and 750SS will offer the returns that these MVs will deliver. They will reach the millions of pounds in value over the coming ten years. Just look back at our early blogs to see that all of our price predictions have proven to be highly conservative. There are only probably about one hundred and twenty investment grade MV Agusta 750 Sport available worldwide. There is so much money from classic cars pouring into this market because the bikes are so far behind the cars in value. We highlighted this trend back in in this article back in 2017. We picked up on it in 2014 in this article and again in 2019 we wrote this article. It’s no coincidence, like any of the predictions we have made, because it’s about supply and demand and most classic motorcycles are not investment grade. As values increase, buyers will undertake far more due diligence than they are doing now and more lawyers will start to work in this lucrative area of the market. The cat is out of the bag now and there are some heavyweight investors looking at the incredible value these motorcycles offer. To read the full version of this article, click the link here and subscribe free to The Inside Line. Go to Market Trends and Analysis and you will see this and other long version blogs at the bottom of the page.
MV Agusta 750 Sport and Colombo link
There is an MV Agusta 750 Sport and Colombo link. The engine in these machines is basically a 1957 MV Agusta Grand Prix racing motor, which is why it has gear driven camshafts. It is very like a scaled down version of the Alfa Romeo 8C engine cut in half and air cooled. Colombo, who designed Ferrari’s V12 engines throughout the 1950s and 60s, including the GTO motor, was involved with the cylinder head development of the Gilera 500 four cylinder. The MV is so close to the Gilera Grand prix motor as to be a copy with increased capacity. Very few classic motorcycles have this pedigree and provenance, as well as being raced by Phil Read, Mike Hailwood, Agostini and many, many other legends. The MV also looks like a work of art, even standing still it looks like it’s about to lurch forward at high speed. These machines would not look out of place next to a Picasso, or any other artist that captures beauty with skill and simplicity. Although manufacturers are building extremely high-cost motorcycles in small numbers, there will never be a time when such machines are built again. The same is true of Ducati’s bevel drive series of machines, never again will we witness such stunning engineering. There’s a brutal rawness, purpose, grace and elegance in these motorcycles that will never be repeated again. Now really is the time to pick up an investment grade example while they can be bought at these values. To read the full version of this article, click the link here and subscribe free to The Inside Line. Go to Market Trends and Analysis and you will see this and other long version blogs at the bottom of the page. Go to Market Trends and Analysis and you will see this and other long version blogs at the bottom of the page.
MV Agusta 750 Sport is the 1930s Alfa Romeo 8C of classic motorcycles
The MV Agusta 750 Sport is the 1930s Alfa Romeo 8C of classic motorcycles and the last 8C to sell went for around US$19,000,000 as you can see here. When the MV Agusta 750 Sport goes to even 20% of the value of these cars, owners stand to enjoy a very healthy tax free (in the UK) profit from these machines. At the end of 2022 one requiring a full frame of restoration sold for £98,000 at H and H auctions here. The machine was so corroded that every single nut, bolt and component required completely restoring. The engine “required re-commissioning”, so it wasn’t running, and quite probably a full rebuild. This is not to criticise H and H, the photos are very clear, but auction machines are sold on site as seen and not running. The terms and conditions means that if there’s a problem, take the last owner of the motorcycle to court- a very expensive process. To read the full version of this article, click the link here and subscribe free to The Inside Line. Go to Market Trends and Analysis and you will see this and other long version blogs at the bottom of the page.
Buying an investment grade 1970s MV Agusta 750 sport
Buying an investment grade 1970s MV Agusta 750 sport is not as straight forward as most people believe. You can take your chances, I know of some beautiful looking examples at great prices, but I would never buy any of them for my customers. We are classic motorcycle investment brokers and we only work with investment grade examples of all machines. We do not move as much metal as possible irrespective of its state, no matter how good it appears, as you can see in this article. These machines always need a lot of work to set them up, then they’re inexpensive to maintain once that is done. They need a lot of due diligence and those all-important original parts need to be present. You won’t find the information about these machines to acquire them in investment grade condition through books or the internet. Investment grade examples come from the right connections and a lot of experience. If you want to buy an MV Agusta 750 Sport from the 1970s and to be sure it’s an investment grade example, call The Motorcycle Broker. To read the full version of this article, click the link here and subscribe free to The Inside Line. Go to Market Trends and Analysis and you will see this and other long version blogs at the bottom of the page.
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