Nice 1981 GPz550

[Nessism]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kawasaki-GPz-/152166543200?forcerrptr=true&hash=item236dd52f60:g:Q7YAAOSw0kNXhsoO&item=152166543200

gpz550 by nessism

[Griffin]

Auction expired, no sale.

$5,100 is a lot of money to ask for a pretty bike that doesn't run well......

[Cipher]

pipes have been stripped too. Not original not worth the asking price.

[Nessism]

Those pipes look stock to me. The '81 bikes had some crappy fragile paint for the black coloring. By the lack of chips I assume there has been some touchup done on them.

[Cipher]

I thought they were all done in black chrome?

[Nessism]

I thought they were all done in black chrome?

You thought wrong.

[Cipher]

Imagine that thanks for letting us all know.

[Big T]

The 81's are unique in a number of ways, the pipe paint being one of them

I'll have to check my magazine test further, the one being sold pipes are satin and I think they may have originally have been flat black. Mine are flat black, but I repainted them about 1990 and that's too long ago to remember

The later GPz had the block chrome pipes, so you were right about that

[1980GS1000E]

I don't recall any GPz bikes of this era that did not have a black chrome finish, at least a bit shinier than that one.

[Nessism]

The 81's are unique in a number of ways, the pipe paint being one of them

I'll have to check my magazine test further, the one being sold pipes are satin and I think they may have originally have been flat black. Mine are flat black, but I repainted them about 1990 and that's too long ago to remember

The later GPz had the block chrome pipes, so you were right about that

I do believe the later bikes had black chrome, but not the '81 550. I owned a super pristine sample in the early 1990's and the paint chipped easily. I was wondering at the time if they could be chrome under the black, thus the reason the paint didn't stick very well.

[Big T]

Mine is showing some rust underneath, so I really need to have them blasted and repainted

I'm going to have to confirm the shade of black, because I don't think I'll be owning it in 25 years