Didn't need a new project...but I got one!

[AshimotoK0]

Looks spot on ! Is that Polychromatic Blue? ... seem to remember by brother having a Triumph Tigress 250cc scooter in that colour.

[SumpMagnet]

The original colour should be Polychromatic Blue ... but that is a colour that is hotly disputed.

When Dad initially did the bike, he re-sprayed it with Ford Cosmos Blue. That was as close as he could get buying paint from Halfords across the counter. That is a bit too 'blue' ... so I have followed in the same tradition, and hunted around for a near colour available from the mass market without having paint specially mixed, or paying the ransom RS Paints charge. Especially since hte Old Man re-sprayed his Thunderbird with their Old Gold paint, and it;s the wrong colour. He owned a 1956 T-Bird in that colour, and as soon as the paint hit the metal, he knew it was wrong. So, while their paint is decent quality, it's not necessairly 'right'.

The actual paint I have is a Hyundai colour....It's a little less blue, and I quite like it. Decent etch primer, some filler primer, one hell of a lot of rubbing down...and a few coats of paint plus clear coat. It's all rattle can, but it has come out quite nice and shiny.

edit: You can see the last bit of Cosmos Blue on the bath-tub side piece behind the bike.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

That's starting to look like a decent Triumph Twenty One, mine was that colour aside from the Petrol Tank that I had sprayed in Vauxhall Viva Red colour as it was free whilst a Viva was in the old body shop at the old California Works on Parliament Street, Derby. At that time Vauxhall Luton contracted out the spraying if interior door cards to Dealers to help with production peaks prior to the Aug 1 plate change. I used to see my old 3TA a couple of decades later with that dreadful red tank that then looked pink due to fading.

Great to read your progress.

[Laverda Dave]

Great progress, it's looking like a Trumpet again👍. How did you get on with the welding of the cases for the tensioner and dizzy, did you manage to contact Andy the welder and Mike at SRS?

[SumpMagnet]

Haven't got any engine work done yet. Slowly building up the cash funds for the work.