Wineman said...
Cisco - had a ex-cop Triumph 650 briefly. Classic
Yeah!! Late 60s early 70s NSW cops rode black Thunderbirds if memory serves. Guys were buying them at gubmnt auctions for $300 - $400.

They came with the vertical rubber edged screens (first thing to come off) and beautiful black fibreglass pannier boxes as well as front crash bars.
If you were lucky enough to get one at auction, you could always make a couple of hundred on it.
I bought a '67 Tiger 100 (ex cop 500cc trainer, leather panniers) for $475 from a guy who bought it at auction after he had owned and ridden it for 3 years. Magic bike!!
Biggest disappointment ever was seeing an original '69 Bonneville for sale at $275 in the Courier Mail one Saturday afternoon in 1971.
If I had read the paper in the morning, I would have owned it.