If you know me, you know I like to get myself involved in the worst of the worst when it comes to projects. So naturally when Alex @Deviant1 started talking about moving on from the Moto Guzzi Eldorado project he had picked up a few years back, I got myself (and a few others) involved. The bike had been partially disassembled so I never saw it all together, but a Guzzi has been on my list ever since I caught a glimpse of a red LeMans on a jobsite years ago. After seeing only a few pics of it in Alex's shop, and what the finished product could be, I paid the man and started working out how I'd get it across the country.
With some help from the DTT folks, the bike made its way from its previous home in Alabama to the Barber Vintage Festival in Birmingham in 2022, where @Hurco550 had agreed to haul it back to Ohio. It didn't roll, and its not light, so I was told it was fun to get onto the trailer. It took a couple of years for this deal to work its way out, and I ended up getting the bike back home to Chicago in November of last year. A good amount of work has been done since then, so I'll be playing catchup on this thread for a bit.
Below are the pics I saw when I agreed to take over this project. The fenders and some of the sheet metal bits had been blasted, and the tank is with @Kanticoy where it'll get chrome powder, paint and stripes.
The man @Deviant1 himself, and the only pic I have of the bike together
With some help from the DTT folks, the bike made its way from its previous home in Alabama to the Barber Vintage Festival in Birmingham in 2022, where @Hurco550 had agreed to haul it back to Ohio. It didn't roll, and its not light, so I was told it was fun to get onto the trailer. It took a couple of years for this deal to work its way out, and I ended up getting the bike back home to Chicago in November of last year. A good amount of work has been done since then, so I'll be playing catchup on this thread for a bit.
Below are the pics I saw when I agreed to take over this project. The fenders and some of the sheet metal bits had been blasted, and the tank is with @Kanticoy where it'll get chrome powder, paint and stripes.
The man @Deviant1 himself, and the only pic I have of the bike together