I have not had time to clean carbs and get the bike running, but I did find side covers and passenger handles and is looking good. I usually prioritize gerting a bike running before cosmetics, but this 2 wheeled art is the exception.
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1974 eldorado civilian
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Vintagehoarder
Tuned and Synch'ed
Have you checked the cyclinders to see if they are chrome, if so I would have them upgraded before you start. This was what we found on my 73 before we got the cylinders Nikasil plated. Great looking bike!
The cylinders can be plated, or the cylinders and pistons replaced with Gilardoni units.
Oh yeah! A real looker. 
I would like to know more about the nikasil. these are photos of cylinder walls.
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I would like to know more. have you a link. I can do a search otherwise. these are not so great photos of cylinder walls
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thank you. how do you check if current condition is ok?
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If chrome, they will never be OK to run at this age. If a magnet sticks, you have chrome plate or iron sleeves. Gilardoni cylinders are a commercial product, MG cycle sometimes has them in stock. As to removing the chrome and doing a nikisil treatment I don't have a source for that. From your pictures I can't tell if they are chrome.
Vintagehoarder
Tuned and Synch'ed
When you click on the picture it gives a better resolution… I seem to see hashmarks on it… Which would be good...
Amboman
Cruisin' Guzzisti
Not quite: if they are chrome a magnet will not stick at all, if they are Nikasil a magnet will barely stick and if iron liners it will stick very well.
As Vintagehoarder posted above, Millenium Technologies is my "go to" source for cylinder replating when necessary.