1983 Voyager vs 1980 B model

I've had a 1979 A1 frame sitting on the bike stand for nearly two years, and other than attaching the swingarm and repainting and polishing the wheels, I haven't got very far with it. So to add to the misery , about 6 months ago I bought a non running, sitting for 20years,  1983 Voyager.



As the Voyager , in this case ,is just about the wheels, frame and engine, it's quite easy to see the massive undertaking Kawasaki took on in the early 80's ,( when comparing the two frames I have sitting next to each other ) when they decided , instead of re -vamping or modernizing the 1980 B model , they decided to build a whole new bike.  They could have put the ZG  engine into the B model , but no.
Except for the part of the frame that carries the engine-  and the engine itself , there doesn't appear to be any carry over from the KZ bikes . The ZN was all new. And stripped down like mine is , it's absolutely massive.  When I sat on the seat, and looked over the fairing , it must be at least 6 to 8 feet before I could see the asphalt in front of the bike .The large touring bike market was exploding in popularity and Kawasaki must have decided to take on Honda once again , with their " bigger is better " philosophy.
When I went to pick this bike up, with 3 of us heaving and grunting to get it out of the sellers basement , it wouldn't fit on my 8 foot and something trailer, and it would just fit if placed corner to corner . But then I couldn't close the ramp. So we rounded up a Makita with a cut off wheel and cut the bags and top trunk off - and the fairing and the tank. But what a fairing . And that digital dashboard. I'd taken my Odyssey 680 battery with me hoping to at least do a compression test, and when we powered up the electric's , even the seller jumped with awe - we'd never seen anything like it. Too bad we couldn't have figured out a way to at least have kept the instruments and put them up on the wall.
Talk about the king of the road - it must have been a wonderful thing to have rolled that new bike out of the dealership back in the day -840 lbs of bike , rider and passenger 300lbs, 200 lbs of camping gear and luggage. I don't think we will ever see this type of motorcycle ever again. 4500 or so bikes were made and I wonder if Kawasaki  ever made a profit in making them.