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Originally Posted by gobs3z
I found this to be kind of a gem, as i assume RC will agree. The fact that it's already at $18,000 and it's from 1994 amazes me. How much were these new? I assume this guy is making a good fortune off of this. And a 750 making 140+hp from that age is dam impressive. I don't understand why the RC51 doesn't live up to the 45, i hate it when they hold back after something good.
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What he doesn't say is that the HRC kit will components was about $100,000 - and there are so few HRC parts left you have little hope of assembling a full NRC spec bike unless you have very good contacts with a number of collectors and ex-race team owners.
148 hp @ 12,500 RPM (in HRC race kit form) - sounds like a good deal in 1994 dollars for $27,000 + $100,000
Makes limited run Ducatis seem like chicken feed..
**EDIT** I checked my records - #38 I don't think is the chassis I was thinking about that has come up for sale a number of times and was part of a law suite - this bike was a partner to a matching VIN# RC30.
This bike was in a private collection - the owner also had an RC30 and an RC45 for street use. Sadly he passed away and I guess they are liquidating the collection.
The stolen RC45 #21 also used to be a stable mate of this bike.
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rc45sn0021/myhomepage/
I thought about buying her a couple times, but I have already been down the path of buying an extremely rare bike - not riding it, then riding it - and then not using etc.
It's such a pity that the chassis will probably never be used as intended.
The reason the RC51 never lived up to the mystique of the RC45 is simple - think of the RC51 as the Z06 of the RC lineage... with the RC45 being the F360CS and the RC30 being the 288GTO.
Just because you are fast doesn't mean you are a hand built limited edition piece of mechanical sculptutre..
They churn out thousands of RC51's a year - they only made about 1200 RC45 chassis for world consumption in 1994 and 1995.