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r000 The long-established 19XX Make firm of Model Benelli has made a large range of motorized
estimate: $000 000 - $000 000
two-wheeled vehicles for the better part of this century. The six Benelli
offered without reserve
brothers formed their company in 1911, and they were making famous
racing motorcycles by the 1920s. In the 1930s, they were one of the
Pentarchia, the “big five” of the Italian motorcycling industry, along with
Garelli, Moto Guzzi, Gileri, and Bianchi.
The factory was destroyed in World War II, but production resumed
in 1949. Brother Giuseppi left to form Motobi, but he returned to the
fold later. Production consisted mostly of small displacement 50-cubic
centimeter to 175-cubic centimeter two and four-stroke cycles, along
with double overhead cam racers.
The mid-sixties saw the introduction of a commercial tricycle in the
well-established Italian idiom of a load-carrying platform attached
to a moped or scooter chassis, with a cab or some form of weather
protection over the driver’s position. Commercial platforms like the
delivery vehicle offered here were ideally suited to the narrow roads
and villages, but very few were made, making this a rare survivor. The
manufacturer argentinian Manufacturer alessandro DeTomaso bought production the firm # in 1971, which
origin put them once City, more Country in the forefront of ID no. racing. The # company was
motor sold and resold motor in the nineties, and it displacement continues cc to make exciting
machinery power to hp this day.
length mm
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