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Title: 1982 Gs550 worth it not worth it
Post by: Tang on July 17, 2008, 10:17:46 AM
http://charleston.craigslist.org/mcy/757039385.html
Title: Re: 1982 Gs550 worth it not worth it
Post by: The Buddha on July 17, 2008, 10:22:52 AM
No title - yes, impossible to get in Carolina's. Nice running bike of that vintage without title isn't worth what he wants for it.
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Title: Re: 1982 Gs550 worth it not worth it
Post by: Tang on July 17, 2008, 10:29:29 AM
how much is it worth lol
Title: Re: 1982 Gs550 worth it not worth it
Post by: The Buddha on July 17, 2008, 10:32:26 AM
100 bucks delivered to you. I hope you find a titled gs550 so you can grab parts off this and use it on that.
In fact I knew of atleast one GS550 my welder scrapped, I got its carbs and its floats actually fit and worked in my virago 1100. That alone was worth 20 bucks. But unless you get lucky like that, it is just a huge massive ugly paperweight that really is too cumbersome to hold down paper.
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Title: Re: 1982 Gs550 worth it not worth it
Post by: Tang on July 17, 2008, 11:43:31 AM
thanks buddah u the buddah lol
Title: Re: 1982 Gs550 worth it not worth it
Post by: DoD#i on July 17, 2008, 02:49:57 PM
Bikes without titles are worth very little.

If there's a legitimate "loss of paper" or whatever, the owner would be better off getting one before trying to sell it - it if can be done, it makes the bike worth something - though 26 year old bikes that are not BMWs or Harleys have certain parts aging and parts availability problems, which I why I now have a GS.

As a "storage auction find", getting this thing re-titled is probably impossible, or at least near-impossibly difficult.

pass.
Title: Re: 1982 Gs550 worth it not worth it
Post by: sledge on July 17, 2008, 02:56:10 PM
Buy it and break it, its worth more in bits.
Title: Re: 1982 Gs550 worth it not worth it
Post by: The Buddha on July 17, 2008, 03:04:52 PM
Its a GS550 not 500.
I actually have heard people say, well I paid such and such for it ... and then the motor seized or they got nailed by a car or what not ...
You see, that little crash you had, its the sound of 100's of your money flying out of the bike.
There is a couple of them rotting away at my nearest bone yard. Some stuff may be coaxed into other bikes, but the rest is usually worthless. He also has a virago 1000, a nighthawk 550, and a GS700E which I dont see as worthless at all ... cos they have some evolutionary parts for the bikes commonly in use today.
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