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Nice video on the Candy Jet Green model
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: Bryanj on March 27, 2016, 03:13:02 PM ---I thought the pinstipes were decals from the factory
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They definitely were Bryan as I removed them from a 3/71 tank on Friday :) 750K0 ones were deffo painted though.
matthewmosse:
Mine is I am sure painted lines, might be a rather old restoration, being as it has been like that since I bought it 10 years ago - worn through that is, 1974/5 bike.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: AshimotoK0 on March 27, 2016, 12:27:16 AM ---
--- Quote from: Johnwebley on March 26, 2016, 08:12:04 PM ---it must be me,I just don't like green as a colour,
but it does look good,finish was,
enjoying Italian roads,no not me !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zzKJFL9muA
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Put this and pics on my Resto Log :)
A few years I spotted a Candy Green tank in a real Honda aficionados garage when I was looking at his sandcasts and I though wow , one of these days I am going to get a 500 in that colour and that's what Menno is painting my set with (it's it's original colour anyway) But looking at James's Gold 500K0 I really like that too. The tank that Menno is painting is a spare one I got with bike 'cos the original one was absolutely disgusting inside. However, over the last week, I stripped the original tank and I bunged two tubs of caustic soda from the pound shop in it and a kettle full of boiling water . Fk me it was like something from a Frankenstein movie with all the heat, hissing and gurgling but turns out the tank had been lined and my 'brew' stripped it out ...it looked like a load of seaweed when I pulled it out. that tank now looks the most dent free tank I have ever seen for a 45 year old bike. Think I might get it painted as a spare in Gold by Menno once I have got my resto's done then I can swap over as the mood takes me. Still love the green though. Funnily enough, the earliest model I know of from Honda with candy paint is the 1967 SS125A but the candy paint was on the frame, not the tank etc !
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