| 100 |
Percentage of auction items sold, both by lot and by value, making this Bonhams' most successful motorcycle sale. All items came from the collection of Willy Neutkens, a retired BMW dealer from the Netherlands. The Guinness Book of Records recognized Neutkens' as the largest single-make motorcycle collection in the world. |
| 1 |
Number of Airheads missing from Neutkens' collection. Excepting the 1925 R37, he owned one of every air-cooled BMW model made. Every single-cylinder model as well. |
| 94 |
Number of lots, comprised of 91 BMW motorcycles, one Ural sidecar, one BMW engine and one wooden model. |
| 1000 |
Number of people who crowded into the BMW Museum in Munich, where the auction was held. |
| 320 |
Number of registered bidders. |
| $885,000- $1,170,000 |
Auction's estimated value, pre-sale. |
| $1,557,600 |
Final auction total |
| $163,875 |
Hammer price for Lot 40, a 1924 BMW R32, subject of a five-person, three-continent bidding battle. This was the most expensive motorcycle sold at the auction. |
| 1500 |
Number of R32s built in 1924. This was the first motorcycle model sold under the BMW name. |
| $39,675 |
Price the BMW Museum paid to secure Lot 76, the ex-works ISDT 1953 BMW R67/2, considered the spiritual father of BMW's wildly popular GS enduro bikes. |
| 3 |
Finishing position of the West German team of Georg Meier, Hans Roth and Walter Zeller in the 1953 International Six Days Trial, on that very bike. |
| 105,633 |
Number of miles an anonymous woman put on her 1982 BMW R65LS, over a period of 14 years, before trading it in to Neukens' dealership. She bought it back at this auction for $3795. |