How much would you guess that the motorcycles from The Wild One, The Great Escape and Top Gun would cost today? £20,000? £40,000? Maybe even £100,000?
Calculated using Easy Rider and Terminator 2’s sold prices as their base, Vertu Motorcycles have discovered how much 10 of the world’s most iconic movie motorbikes would fetch at auction:
More than £100,000 predicted at auction
- The Wild One – £621,726 (1950 6T Triumph Thunderbird)
- The Great Escape – £394,750 (Triumph TR6 Trophy Bird)
- Matrix Reloaded – £336,825 (Ducati 996)
- Mad Max – £179,218 (1977 Kawasaki KZ1000)
- Rambo: First Blood – £101,270 (Yamaha XT250)
Less than £100,000 predicted at auction
- Pulp Fiction – £80,748 (1986 Harley-Davidson FXR Super Glide)
- Tomorrow Never Dies – £74,362 (1997 BMW R1200 C Cruiser)
- Top Gun – £61,647 (Kawasaki GPZ900 R)
- Mission Impossible 2 – £43,427 (Triumph Speed Triple 955i)
- Kill Bill Vol. 1 – £7,422 (Kawasaki ZZR 250)
But we know these are big money pipedream prices. So, we have worked out the current cost of buying a replica movie motorcycle model.
(Some are much cheaper than you’d expect – in fact one in their list costs as little as £595!)
Iconic movie motorcycle replica cost in today’s market
- Matrix Reloaded – £27,000 (Ducati 996)
- The Wild One – £13,450 (1950 6T Triumph Thunderbird)
- The Great Escape – £10,000 (Triumph TR6 Trophy Bird)
- Mad Max – £6,250 (1977 Kawasaki KZ1000)
- Tomorrow Never Dies – £4,500 (1997 BMW R1200 C Cruiser)
- Pulp Fiction – £4,353 (1986 Harley-Davidson FXR Super Glide)
- Rambo: First Blood – £3,800 (Yamaha XT250)
- Mission Impossible 2 – £2,995 (Triumph Speed Triple 955i)
- Top Gun – £2,574 (Kawasaki GPZ900 R)
- Kill Bill Vol. 1 – £595 (Kawasaki ZZR 250)