Shala & I, each, had that 1977 GW. I owned mine right out of HS for about a year, until I traded it for my 1979 XS1100. In 1995, when I first met Shala, she had just bought the same 77 model and had it in the shop getting the 3 piece matching Vetter fairing and bags installed. I traded mine all those years earlier to a dealership in Paola, KS (60 or so miles from KCMO. She bought hers in the KC metro area. We have no way of figuring out if it might have been the very same bike or not, but I always think to myself it could have been.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.