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Title: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: EldoMike on November 15, 2015, 08:29:34 AM
Kinda over restored but still nice....Not mine but I did sell the owner another 1974 Eldorado last year....kinda over restored but still nice...check out the video in the auction...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Moto-Guzzi-Eldorado-/331708296033?forcerrptr=true&hash=item4d3b5aeb61:g:--YAAOSwlV9WRcFn&item=331708296033

Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: Hahnda on November 15, 2015, 08:53:20 AM
There is a lot of extra chrome on that bike. Is the brake rotor even chromed?
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: EldoMike on November 15, 2015, 08:59:14 AM
There is a lot of extra chrome on that bike. Is the brake rotor even chromed?

Yeah, would have been a nicer bike if original finishes had been used....just my opinion
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: oldbike54 on November 15, 2015, 09:04:11 AM
 Somehow I knew Moe and Cycle Garden were going to pop up  :rolleyes:

 Dusty
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: leafman60 on November 15, 2015, 09:24:48 AM
That's an impressive machine but, if I was going to pay that sort of price, I would want an original-spec restoration.

No disrespect to the owner, but that is sorta like a renovated Harley Knucklehead complete with an S&S stroker kit inside! Or a '57 Chevy with a late-model 350 V8.  It isn't a restoration.  I wonder if it has a Delco Remy alternator.

Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: John Ulrich on November 15, 2015, 09:29:27 AM
I likey.    :thumb:
I need to meet that guy.  A lot of nice Loops in MN under the radar of many of us!
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: Hahnda on November 15, 2015, 09:44:57 AM
It is VERY nice. But I am not a fan of over the top chrome.

I read more of the details. I see this is one of the last Eldos. I have one from the same batch, number 63087.
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: EldoMike on November 15, 2015, 09:51:18 AM
I likey.    :thumb:
I need to meet that guy.  A lot of nice Loops in MN under the radar of many of us!

Jeff is a nice guy...you're right, some nice bikes in the MN and WI area. ..
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on November 15, 2015, 10:43:09 AM
Jeff is a nice guy...you're right, some nice bikes in the MN and WI area. ..

Gotta have *something* to do besides beer and making babies in the Winter.. :smiley:
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: wymple on November 15, 2015, 10:58:04 AM
That is a ridiculous asking price.
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: Arizona Wayne on November 15, 2015, 12:37:09 PM
That is a ridiculous asking price.


Only $30K?...Bwa..ha...ha...h a...ha   :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: Triple Jim on November 15, 2015, 12:51:42 PM
There is a lot of extra chrome on that bike. Is the brake rotor even chromed?

I think the front rotor was lathe turned with a chattering cutting tool, and then the whole thing was chromed.  Now the chrome is coming off the friction surface.  At least it looks that way to me.
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: oldbike54 on November 15, 2015, 12:57:19 PM
I think the front rotor was lathe turned with a chattering cutting tool, and then the whole thing was chromed.  Now the chrome is coming off the friction surface.  At least it looks that way to me.

 Makes one wonder about the rest of the restoration . Over restored , over chromed vehicles won't normally command premium prices , time will tell .

  Dusty
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: canuck750 on November 15, 2015, 12:58:23 PM
Very nice restoration, looks to me like a lot of the 'chrome' is polished aluminum. He has done a hell of a job, still trying to get $30K for a Loop is going to take a one in a million buyer.

Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: arveno on November 15, 2015, 02:20:49 PM
I don't understand why ppl buy CG big bore kit ( iron sleeved cylinders ) and don't buy a properly made gilardoni kit.
same price .
I just don't get it.
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: Triple Jim on November 15, 2015, 02:36:37 PM
I don't understand why ppl buy CG big bore kit ( iron sleeved cylinders ) and don't buy a properly made gilardoni kit.
same price .
I just don't get it.

Right.  My thing is I don't get show bikes in general.  A reasonably clean motorcycle in top mechanical shape is what does it for me.  I've seen guys buy 40 year old motorcycles in original condition that look good, and have the cool factor of being original, and immediately do a frame-up restoration.  To me the result is nowhere near as good as it was before, but to each his own!   :boozing:
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: oldbike54 on November 15, 2015, 02:48:10 PM
Right.  My thing is I don't get show bikes in general.  A reasonably clean motorcycle in top mechanical shape is what does it for me.  I've seen guys buy 40 year old motorcycles in original condition that look good, and have the cool factor of being original, and immediately do a frame-up restoration.  To me the result is nowhere near as good as it was before, but to each his own!   :boozing:

  :1: infinity .

  Dusty
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: Antietam Classic Cycle on November 15, 2015, 05:35:16 PM
Kinda over restored but still nice....Not mine but I did sell the owner another 1974 Eldorado last year....kinda over restored but still nice...check out the video in the auction...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Moto-Guzzi-Eldorado-/331708296033?forcerrptr=true&hash=item4d3b5aeb61:g:--YAAOSwlV9WRcFn&item=331708296033

Isn't 63062 the one you sold last year? The one I bought in Hudsonville, MI back about '06, sold to Bill H. in OH about a year later? It's still on the Loop List in my name.
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: Cool Runnings on November 15, 2015, 05:48:42 PM
Old Police Harley's are cheap, was looking at a 1994 Police bike for $5,000 with 22k  on her. Ended up buying a new Guzzi.  :violent1:
Title: Re: Beautiful and Expensive Eldorado
Post by: EldoMike on November 15, 2015, 07:41:31 PM
Isn't 63062 the one you sold last year? The one I bought in Hudsonville, MI back about '06, sold to Bill H. in OH about a year later? It's still on the Loop List in my name.

Yeah that's it