12th Jul, 2025 14:00 GMT/BST
The Summer Transport Sale
831
Ariel 500 VH Red Hunter 1959
Ariel 500cc VH Red Hunter
Registration number: 339XVA
Frame number: APR6068
Engine number: LC1237
Logbook: Yes new V5c
Keys:
Colour: Maroon
This bike was purchased in August 2020, on the first ride out the engine holed out the piston.
In 2022 Jeff Been of Queensborough was commisioned to completely overhaul the Engine ,gearbox and the rest of the motorcycle.
Full list of works and costs included.
Engine does not have an alloy barrel its just painted silver.
It also has a rebuilt Magneto and Carburrettor.
This bike is powerful and a total contrast to the NH350 "seller adds it's more like a BSA Goldstar".
All motor vehicles are sold as seen, with no warranty implied or given.
Estimated at £4,000 - £4,500
Auction: The Summer Transport Sale, 12th Jul, 2025
The annual Transport Sale returns to Tennants Auctioneers inJuly, with an array of classic and vintage cars and motorcycles, along with a fantastic range of colourful vintage enamel automotive advertising signs and a broad offering of automobilia including a very rare pair of vintage car mascots.
Leading the sale are a 1956 MG 1500 Roadster, an earlier 1953 MG TD, a 1972 Mercedes Benz 350 SL, and a very low mileage 1985 Ford Capri Laser. Amongst the other vehicles in the sale are a Leyland 344 Tractor, a 1957 BSA Goldstar 350cc motorcycle, a good 1958 Triumph Thunderbird 650cc and a good example of a 1963 Triumph Tiger 90 350cc.
Amongst a good range of automobilia is ‘The Happy Couple’, a pair of Mickey and Minnie Mouse Car Mascots, a Caterpillar Model Sixty 60th Anniversary Model, and over seventy lots of vintage enamel motoring advertising signs.
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Sunday 6th July - Thursday 10th July 11am-3pm, Friday 11th July 8am-3pm, and morning of the sale from 8am
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