good sized pics

[z1100r]

I'm looking for some good sized side on pics of 500/4's in different colours. I fancy changing mine from brown/black to one of the other std colours. I really like that burnt orange or that blue the early 750's were done in. I quite like the green ones too. Had enough of brown though.

Can anyone post some or know where I might see a few. I've googled like mad but keep comming up with the same 2 bikes.

edit...wahay I found this just after I posted...no blue then,,huh

http://www.spookytoms.com/CB500-PaintColors.html

http://www.spookytoms.com/Honda-PaintColors.html

[SteveD CB500K0]

The early 750s used candy paint schemes.

Like these?

[z1100r]

 I cant see your links at the moment Steve - blocked for Malware on work computer.
 I think I have decided what I'm going to do, and that is stick with Brown but Candy Garnet rather than my Maxim metallic.

 Its a bit pricey to do trial and error but I might just buy some aerosols of each from RS and see what comes out most to my likeing.

 I cant stop looking at that page of 500's at the moment, they all look superb to me..!! They really are a pleasing to the eye classic design bike aren't they, very late 50's Brit bike styling but with a hugely more sophisticated engine.

[Bryanj]

Only colours officialy imported to UK were the Gold, Garnet brown and Black (which seems to have been rare everywhere else). We didn't get all the other nice colours like the US, I got one NOS 550K1 tank in "Boss Maroon Metallic"-----similar to Ford Purple velvet-----that i am saving for a project

[z1100r]

Thats interesting...Mine is definately maxim brown metallic. As far as I know it is a 1975 UK bike. A late one though on a "P" plate. I bought it off a mates sister in about 1982 - it had stood unused in a shed for years because she'd moved to Lanzarote, I'm sure she was only the second owner, and the bike is a genuine UK jobby. It does surprise me though to see alot of 550's with same "P" plate, I just assumed it was around the changeover. 

[Bryanj]

A "P" plate 500 has to have been either imported or stored in a crate somewhere, acording to the service letters i have from the US the Maxim Brown was a 1972 500K2/750K3 colour and a 1974 450K7 but i havent got any newer charts. In one of my books i have all the colour code part numbers but i havn't got that to hand at the moment

[z1100r]

First registration 11.11.75

Frame no. = CB500-2067573
 Engine no =  CB500-E-2156155

Anyway this can be checked out...?

[Yoshi823]

I always loved the 500/550 fours. Back when I first started to ride bikes I wanted a 550F1 but could not get one until 1978 when I bought MYV60P in orange. But I found these...

[z1100r]

 Ok whoever said it was garnet brown was right...its just so faded it looks darker. The green metallic underneath is through in an awful lot of places.

[Bryanj]

Only accurate way to check it is to ask Honda for a "Proof of Year of Manufacture" letter for the frame number, costs about

[florence]

My 500/4 is on a P plate and was first registered in 1976.  The original paint colour was Candy Garnet Brown, although now it is Finnegan's Smoothrite Black.

I know for certain that it is a UK bike and can only assume it sat in a showroom for a while before being sold as is often the case in our rural bike shops.

VIN = CB500- 206XXXX

Honda say it was made in 1974.