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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. 

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