Donk
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The start. '79 GL1000. Will keep you posted as it comes back towards original. Not making a show bike just want a really nice rider.
Old Goldwings
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The start. '79 GL1000. Will keep you posted as it comes back towards original. Not making a show bike just want a really nice rider.
the Ferret
Daily rider since May 1965
Looking forward to the progress reports
That looks like a pretty clean starting point!
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Donk
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Less is more. The hideous floorboards are off and footpegs are on. Bike looks much better with the seat off than it did with it on.
the Ferret
Daily rider since May 1965
It will look so much better with a stock seat
Back in 1977 I was at a dealer and had to make a decision between a new Yamaha 750 and a low mileage 2 year old GL1000. Same price.
I took the Yamaha. Nice bike, had it a about 4 years, but always regretted not taking the Honda. Great looking bike.
I took the Yamaha. Nice bike, had it a about 4 years, but always regretted not taking the Honda. Great looking bike.
ST Gui
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It's one of the best looking bikes I've ever owned. It was great to ride. I put more miles on that bike than most all my others combined. Even my ST with its two trips to MT.
For some reason a lot of the online pics of this bike show these high handlebars that mine didn't have. There are few pics with factory low bars. I still have a poster of this bike that shows the lower bars.
This is one of maybe five bikes I'd buy again if Honda made a retro model looked the same. Seeing one at Alice's Restaurant in Woodside CA I was surprised at how small it seemed next to my ST. But lots of plastic bits will do that.
ardykay54
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I had two......1976 
and a 1977
and a 1977
The start. '79 GL1000. Will keep you posted as it comes back towards original. Not making a show bike just want a really nice rider.
A nice find, rare to spot out in the wild, especially one only marginally tempered with...
So well worth preserving, but be prepared that its a hobby that'll take time and money...
And time works against us, alone finding an electroplater for redoing parts the chromed fenders these days...
The chrome electroplaters are around, but the good ones's prices will make you gasp.
mello dude
Half genius, half dumazz whackjob foole
Blast from the past...
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Did that Cordoba have the rich Corinthian leather interior?
(said in my best Ricardo Montalban impression)
ardykay54
Russ "NeonMan" Knock
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Yes!.....and they sent Tattoo to be my driver for a month but I had to feed him.....gave him some peanut M&Ms but he only wanted "the plain, the plain!"
Russ.
I'm surprised to see no Vetter-ized Goldwings.
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Now, THAT'S funny right there!Yes!.....and they sent Tattoo to be my driver for a month but I had to feed him.....gave him some peanut M&Ms but he only wanted "the plain, the plain!"
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Donk
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True that. I gave almost half what I paid for the bike to get a really nice OEM seat for it! I have decided not to add up all the $20 and $30 parts I'm buying for it. That way I just have fun messing with it.
The bars on the bike are the OEM tall bars. I'd love to find a picture of or a part number for the low bars. Were they the same bars as the '75 & '76 bikes?