1949 Triumph Trophy TR5
Posted on 10/11/2011 4:57:20 AM PDT by DFG
Now you too can jump the shark, or at least try to clear 14 garbage cans.
One of the motorcycles that was used by "The Fonz" on the classic TV show “Happy Days” will be crossing the auction block at the Bonhams Classic California Sale in Los Angeles on November 12th.
According to the Daily Mail, the 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 has been sitting the garage of California motorcycle collector Marshall Ehlers since he purchased it in 1995 from famed Hollywood stuntman Bud Ekins.
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Surprised there is only one.
I had the 1970 version, semi-customized as a “Sunset Stripper”.
(The shop’s title, not mine)
They did about 150 of them in various paint schemes.
1949 Triumph Trophy TR5
Only one because it wasn’t actually used in action, only as a prop.
I’m happy with my ‘71 T100C Trophy 500, all original with 6k mis., all original docs & papers; my ‘72 T120V Bonneville that I restored; and my ‘73 T150V Trident someone else restored....
Was this a different bike?
http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/9448/Fonzie_Motorcycle_Jump/
My Triumph was a used Tiger Cub basket case. Can’t remember the year, but it was pre’70.
They never use the same bikes for jumps - just like Steve McQueen’s jump in The Great Escape (which was a British Triumph, not a German BMW - but McQueen did do that jump himself I understand), and as Fonzie couldn’t ride himself, a double did the jump....
a ‘49 TR5 couldn’t have done the jump either......
Things move so fast in that clip that you can’t really tell what it was....does look like a vertical twin though, probably a newer Triumph of the age of the show......
I thought Ralph Malph destroyed the other one.
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