Don't buy it, because if you plan on steel-wooling it, taking off the touring specific parts to make it a touring bike, and you don't know if it's a good deal or not, then you haven't done your homework well enough to know how to not ruin a classic. That may sound harsh, but it's the truth. I'm far from being a Paramount fanboy, and I'm certainly not a concours-crazed preservationist, but there are a finite number of valuable classics out there and, with no insult intended, you sound like you don't know much about classic bikes.