While they don’t always give motorcycles their fair share of the limelight, the big auto auctions certainly have a knack for bringing out some heavy hitters. Held August 17-19, Mecum’s Monterey 2023 headlines will be dominated by Shelby, Ferrari and Bizzarrini, but if you peruse the lots long enough, there are some stellar motorcycles crossing the block. There’s no predicting where the hammer will fall, but if you find yourself in Monterey in a couple weeks, here are three lots we wouldn’t sleep on.
1918 Henderson Model H History has been kind to the Indian Four, and these bikes are absolutely breathtaking in person, but the Indian is really the lesser American inline-four. Shattering records for performance and reliability, the four-cylinder bikes of the Henderson Motorcycle Company were standouts of motorcycling’s golden era—regarded as the “Duesenberg of Motorcycles.”…