1953 MOTO GUZZI 250 AIRONE SPORT

Make: MOTO GUZZI
Model: 250 AIRONE SPORT
Registration: ZV 8074
Engine Size (cc): 250
Year of Manufacture: 1953
Location: PICKERING
You can view from: Wednesday 23 July 2025 - Tuesday 29 July 2025

NOT REGISTERED IN THE UK. Paperwork includes an Irish registration document (IRL) and a technical information sheet.

Please note that all the vehicle details have been provided by the vendor as the motorbike is not registered in the UK.

The vendor has provided the following:

• Registration no. ZV 8074
• Frame no. 18883
• Engine no. M88609
• Moto Guzzi Airone Sport 250 was treated to a ‘last nut and bolt’ restoration in 2004, since when it has been dry stored, maintained in working condition and not used
• The previous owner purchased the Guzzi in 2006 from Yesterdays Antique Motorcycles in the Netherlands
• The current owner purchased the motorcycle in the Bonhams Collectors' Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia on 14 November 2012 at Harrogate, Great Yorkshire Showground November 2014
• The motorcycle is offered with Republic of Ireland registration document.
• Notes from Bonhams Harrogate Showground Auction 14th November 2014:
• Carlo Guzzi’s very first prototype motorcycle of 1919 was unconventional in so far as its 500cc single-cylinder engine was installed horizontally and built in unit with the gearbox, and although the company would eventual turn to other engine layouts, the ‘flat single’ had established itself as a Guzzi hallmark by the end of the 1930s.
• Guzzi recommenced production post-war with range of updated pre-war designs, which in the case of the 250cc Airone (heron) meant it gained a telescopic front fork, larger diameter brakes and an aluminium-alloy cylinder barrel and ’head. The Airone offered a 70mph top speed and the ability to cruise at 60-plus all day, and remained a top seller well into the 1950s.