In the mid Seventies, someone brought me a D Shadow to get tuned and running for him. He hadn't owned it long and had previously given it to an "old cycle expert" in Portland Oregon to restore for him. I must say, it sure looked nicer than my D Shadow with all the newly chromed parts glittering in the sun... Too bad that it didn't stop there! Get out your parts book and for starters, open to page M002. Now imagine just about everything there that could be chromed was! The bike had broken liners, timing case spindles that you could turn by hand and things I can't even describe done to it. I busted my butt trying to get that bike running, it was a good thing parts were cheap and plentyful from Good Old Doug Hollis back then. When I finally got the bike near as I could to sorted out, the owner picked it up, rode it a half dozen times and then parked it with the rest of his collection of about 25 bikes. As far as I know it still is setting in the same spot, next to a C Comet (a not so bad rebuild), both with white sheets over them, for the last 30 plus years.
Cheers, John