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CB500/550 / Paint disaster / new colour
« on: Today at 07:16:17 PM »
My Dad is kindly helping me sort out my bike and he took the tank off, and thought it was completely drained, and turned it over and some fuel leaked out and has destroyed the paint.
I was warned when I bought it that the paint on the tank may be iffy, but I didn't expect fuel to damage it this badly.
Anyway, lesson learnt, excuse to repaint it properly.
The bike is a 1976 CB550 US import, so it should have originally been Candy Garnet Brown I believe, but someone painted it black like a CB500.
So I'm thinking of perhaps going for Flake Sunrise Orange, which I realise is an earlier colour, but I think it is nice and bright.
I just wondered if anyone has had a tank painted recently and had any advice, especially getting the striping correct etc.
cheers!
I was warned when I bought it that the paint on the tank may be iffy, but I didn't expect fuel to damage it this badly.
Anyway, lesson learnt, excuse to repaint it properly.
The bike is a 1976 CB550 US import, so it should have originally been Candy Garnet Brown I believe, but someone painted it black like a CB500.
So I'm thinking of perhaps going for Flake Sunrise Orange, which I realise is an earlier colour, but I think it is nice and bright.
I just wondered if anyone has had a tank painted recently and had any advice, especially getting the striping correct etc.
cheers!