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how rare are these fairings?

timebombprod

timebombprod

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posted my bike in a facebook group for these bikes showing my paint ideas for the bike, had a few comments that said take that sticker of your fairing, i just told them its not one but another guy said that they're super rare to have. after looking on facebook, craigslist, ebay, and google i couldnt find any other bike or a set of fairings that have these, id figure a picture on google of the bike would show me one but to my suprise i couldn't find one.

knowing there was something like 3500 of these made for the US whether it was just the GL or all 650s im wondering how many out of that were installed with this fairing, or if i can just know why they did it and if it has some meaning. anything there is you know about them let me know!

by the way its the red suzuki emblem that im talking about


https://imgur.com/forrEvd
 
By fairing are you mean the chrome airbox trim that has the red 'S' on ?
 
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It is my understanding that only 37 650 GL's were built with that particular faring, only 17 of them were exported to the United States.
It represents they were hand and machine assembled in Japan by Japanese technicians using only the finest materials obtainable. You truly have a special piece of Suzuki history.
Oh, there will be naysayers out there, but that's because they don't no or are jealous of what you have. It's probably best just keeping it between you and I... Congratulations
 
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Dang it storm, you've always had a habit of being secretive like that. I wish you would share more of your secrets.
 
A sticker on the airbox cover? Is it identical on both sides? If so, then the P.O. was a well-balanced dork. I doubt that the factory in Japan applied those to any bike they built.

If you like it, leave it. If you want museum quality stock, start sanding.
 
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