My favorite bike was a $50 barn find survivor that was almost entirely original, but in desperate need of some love. A 1984 Centurion Elite GT in beautiful "super metallic bronze". I disassembled it, cleaned and removed all of the rust from everything, rebuilt it, then took it on it's maiden voyage... That's when I knew that I had a new favorite bike!!!
Since then, I've been made a few modifications to personalize it, but it's still all mostly original equipment. I do have plans to continue upgrading certain things though as I can afford to.
Here's a catalog shot from the '84 Centurion catalog.
The pic from the original FB marketplace ad. showing the condition as found.
Then this is what it looks like now. The next upgrades planned are to add some nice aluminum fenders, and get some better tires. It still rides like a Cadillac though even with the cheap tires!
