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Nice 1981 GPz550

Auction expired, no sale.

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