Parakeet Yellow Paint Code

[AshimotoK0]

I'm not 100% certain being a USA colour but Freedom Green was used on 750's and not 500's, maybe the 550's though🤔🤔🤔🤔.

Well I meant 500/550 but the 550 like the 500 not the 'F' series or 'K3' Julie. Wasn't the USA  early 550 just a bored out version of the 500?

I think this is a '74 550 with that colour scheme. I just need to confirm it's the corrert for Johnny's bike before shelling out on some paint for him. The panel I have is NOS and never painted (bought it off Bryan when I got my 500K0 so he will know).

Dave ... it's gonna look stunning whatever shade you finally decide. Sadly never photo'd my lovely Parakeet Yellow F2 ... it got nicked from work ..never to be seen again. Some b*stard on FaceBook about 2 yrs ago posted a comment on a Hull memories site when there was a  feature on the place I worked saying ' Yea nicked loads of motorbikes from there' . I always looked around for a 400 with front engine triangular plates made of some sort of brass alloy??? as the PO had laser cut some for it where he worked. ... so a magnet would have been a good detective tool.

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[Laverda Dave]

Why don't lowlife's like that ever get nicked, especially after boasting about it on Faceache, some people are just so thick!

[AshimotoK0]

I used to read that magazine Ash. Bob Berry was the Editor I seem to remember. He had a CBX restored and it became a bit of an ongoing story in the magazine but I won't add to the story as it became a bit of a saga.  Japanese Classic magazine was launched to rival it, my own 400/4 was on the cover of the first edition. It folded after six issues due to lack of sales

Dinah May, wasn't she married to Michael Winner the producer of the film Death Wish at some point?

Yea .. as a joke I bought Graham Curtis this book from a charity shop as he had a bit of a thing about her I reckon She wasn't married to Michael Winner ... she was his P.A. 
I was on holiday at the time in the BIL's cottage near Bakewell but it was p*ssing it down and I had nowt to read ... so read her book.
He sounded like the tw*t everyone thought he was but she seemed to have great affection for him even though, as his P.A. she lead a dogs life with him at times.

Bob Berry also had a UK CB250K2 and Graham restored that for the magazine too and got to keep (sell) it .  I think they paid him good money for his contributions.

Was that the CBX resto with blasting media inside the engine Dave?

[AshimotoK0]

  Japanese Classic magazine was launched to rival it, my own 400/4 was on the cover of the first edition. It folded after six issues due to lack of sales

I can't find reference to that magazine anywhere Dave. Do you still have a copy?

[Johnny4428]

Hi Ash that is the colour that you have there on that panel and pic of bike. The 74 550’s had that as an option across the pond.

[Laverda Dave]

Was that the CBX resto with blasting media inside the engine Dave?
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That was the one Ash. The magazine ran a series about the restoration. When he finally got it back it lasted about 50 miles before the carnage began. He continued to run updates about it for a while with the ensuing repairs before it just ended with no reason given (I guess money must have changed hands or something similar?). I don't know what happened to the bike in the end.

Bob Berry also started another magazine called 'The Biker' which didn't last long either. I remember issue No.1 featured the Kawasaki Z400J and it was asked if it was the Honda CB400/4 replacement, it wasn't being a bit lardy and slow but still a lovely looking bike and why I restored the BIL's.
I still have my original copy of Japanesse Classic magazine dated May 1992 (£1.80, those were the days!). Features included the CX500 Turbo (or the Orbit if it was in your rear view mirror!), A feature on Tippets Motors in Surbiton, Dave Jupp's RE5, Mike Wilson's Honda CB77, the new Kawasaki GPZ900 and Graham Crosby. Before it was launched I was sent an issue of the pilot copy (a few people in the VJMC were sent a copy at random). It only had about 10 pages and the editor asked the reader if they had a recently completed restoration to feature in the first edition so I answerd and a few weeks later Brain Crighton paid me a visit and my 400/4 featured in issue number 1. The magazine also employed John Mossey to restore a 400/4 as a prize as a feature series. I dont recall it ever being finished before the magazine folded after about 6 issues.

[SteveD CB500K0]

Dave Jupp built the cutaway CB750 engine that I had in the barn for many years.


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