Hard Pass on Expensive Vintage Murray Bicycles

Pawn Stars Season 22

Any particular reason you got murres instead of Schwinns or yes I’ve been collecting bikes for about 20 years and I started collecting swins like most guys do and I just said you know what I want to collect something that nobody has I seen these on on a picture and I

Thought I got to have one of these all right um yeah in late 1950s early 1960s a lot of people started customizing cars there was a lot of motorcycle movies out there naturally kids started doing with their bicycles was like one of the first people to catch on and start doing the

Big bars and they called them wheelie bikes Schwinn was extremely successful with the stingray and so Murray said hey sounds like a good idea to us uh so they started making them too Murray has been producing bikes since the 1930s and while at first they were pretty expensive they eventually became

Known by their competitors as the ones to follow when it came to pricing kind of like us here at Gold and Silver what do you want to do with them man uh I’d like to sell them any idea of how much you’re looking to get or uh this one I’m asking 6,000 for and that one I’m asking 2,000 for it’s a lot of money for Murray’s man they’re all original everything yes

Uh they’re all original down to the nuts and bolts all right you mind if I have a bu come down and check them out oh no go ahead let me bring in somebody that I know that kind of tell me a little bit about these let me know

If they’re all original and everything like that all right I’ll be right back all right uh I I pretty much know what it is and I’m open to somebody coming in and basically confirming my uh knowledge and what what I have got some Murray Eliminator bikes nice back in the ‘ 50s

Across the country people were customizing motorcycles same thing was going on with the bike spectum guys were customizing their bikes and making them look like like the Choppers they were seeing out there so in ‘ 62 Huffy came out with the first of the muscle bikes

They came out with this type of styling and then you had the stingray that came out a year after that and Murray was trying to get on the bandwagon too they started coming out with this FS series and they made that bike from 67 for

About 10 years and this style of bike I believe only came out one year which was 69 and this had all the bells and whistles I mean this is definitely the Holy Grail when it comes to Murray bikes here all right so what are your concerns

Cory um you want to give them a look over see if they’re all original okay yeah I’ll check them out um there’s a few things we look for we want to see the tamples are original Here you know we got a few Nicks and um the Cobra tample seems to be coming off a little bit but all looks original all feels right all the Chrome seems right doesn’t seem like it’s been refinished what we’re looking for is Factory correctness and everything’s Factory

Correct all the parts are original this is exactly the way the bike would have looked like let me look over this one what I love is just the feel of the seat I mean it seems like you’ve stored them in a nice cool place cuz they’re not hard or cracking that’s what you

Want to see everything checks out everything’s 100% original on both of them all right um it’s a big question man what do you think they’re worth well not bike there about 1,200 okay you don’t think the fact that uh being NOS would make it worth a lot more 1 12200 it’ be the

Premium on that bike this bike here definitely the Holy Grail you don’t see too many of these come to Market 3,000 to the right buyer Johnny I appreciate change man all right take care guys the sellers seem to disagree with my appraisal but just like the stock market these items go up and

Down all the time the Mark I is one of the more sought-after Murray bikes but in today’s market I believe it would bring $33,000 tops so I’ll go three for the pair or if you just want to sell me this one I’ll do 700 I can’t do

That I’ve got more than that in that one I got to have at least 15 and I can’t go down any lower than 5,500 on this one man we are really really far off buddy um looks like we’re not going to make a deal all right take care Budd thank

You guess I won’t be riding a bike today they definitely made a mistake today they’ll never find another one like that in the same condition uh you know they’re lost