I found one!
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RIP Doug Whiteaker and Dick Russell
 
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That is an amazing photo cough calendar material.
A tableaux of the perfect XS650 mission, out for a back road jaunt, a hike, and lunch........
I'm jealous!
I like the short signal stalks and the fact that there not being a shop in the background, he actually rode it there. ...and that bike looks very nice. ...and , of course, big welcome...
 
Lucky you to have one in your garage. These survivors are getting hard to find. Looks like it’s almost all there, though. I had a ‘78 a number of years back that I sold to a guy in Vancouver, BC who was going to ship it to home to Australia when his work visa expired. Yours has the same paint job as my ‘78, but maybe the colours were different for Europe.
 

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I had to dig to find this picture. I got this 1977 from a fellow that had left it in his garage from 1982. (40 years) I stripped the bike down to the frame and cleaned and polished everything, sand blasted the frame. The tank and side covers were really badly hazed, but luckily no major scratches or dents. I wet sanded them and refinished with clearcoat which turned out great and the bike still has it’s original colours.
 

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Beautiful bikes! 😍

Yes, it's complete, the parts missing from the picture are all there. The paintwork is 'not original' in normal black. The European D-model was available in silver, bountiful blue (like yours) or black, but with different decals. Mine in the picture above corresponds to the last european 447 from '80 onwards, which was only available in brilliant red and most recently in the slightly lighter cardinal red.
 
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