I bought a Midnight Maxim

It's a personal decision to commit to rebuilding a bike. If you have the money, time and want to do such a thing. My personal view is this. If I could find a bike like the one that FtUp has I would take my 83 down completely and make a nice Midnight Maxim. There are not that many out there in restored condition and I believe the value will continue to go up on the unique and low production models we own.
My thoughts for my bike is to start acquiring Midnight parts and when I have the parts I can't reproduce in hand I'm going to pull my bike down and start with a bare power coated frame and swing arm.
I can get the chrome plating stripped easy enough from the plating shop across the freeway from me. It's the gold accent pieces that are going to be hard to come up with decent ones.

 

Well, FtUp, if you decide to part the bike out,
what do you need for the exhaust?
or should we take this off line?
As MN-Maxim stated above, there are fewer of these bikes around.
It may be worth rebuilding just for that very reason.
Could be a fun project for the winter months.....

 

It looks like the frame took a major hit. The lower tubes that go down to the engine mounts are bent. Not to say that a good straight frame as a doner could be used to graft those parts back in there.
Anything can be repaired if there is the time, money and patience to do it. FtUp
Has expressed he could use the parts and doesn't have the funds to do such a project anyway. If any of the gold accent parts end up for sale I will be checking them out.

 

i have posted a cl ad for parts in the seattle area, just search maxim in the seattle cl and you will find it. or you can e mail me directly bruceblessing at gmail. also, there is a midnight maxim locally that has been listed for quite awhile for $1800. it's a resto and all the gold has been painted black, but it looks pretty clean.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/5261692712.html