The pipes' color doesn't bother me, although gold is not my color of choice...
If they're stainless, I can polish it all the way out, and I stopped it from happening before by painting the inside of the pipes with Hi-Temp paint. That always worked well. I collect vintage Airstream trailers, so polishing for me is like second nature.
Manufacture marks? Its a 2002- how long does it take? They're not offensive, so they'll be a reminder of how fresh it is.
I'm able to make these bars, have a chopper builder friend, Eddie Trotta, aka Thunder Cycles, and he's got a mandrel bender, so making the bends should easy, just need to get a look at how to mount them, and definitely have to put some foot pegs, turned out, way out- for extra leg space.
Thanks for the info! I paid $2500USD for it, with 18000 miles, seemed like a decent price and I'm stoked with how its acted so far.