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Nice video on the Candy Jet Green model

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AshimotoK0:

--- 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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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 !

JamesH:
Good eye Oddjob, I noticed exactly the same. Also looks like decals used for the pinstrip rather than paint. Also aftermarket shocks and a few other bits not oem correct. I'll be doing one of my other K0's in green once the gold one has gone...

matthewmosse:
My favourite of the 500/4 coulors is also the green, though I really love my green ones patina, the paint is all leathery in finish and has polished back through to bare metal where riders knees have rubbed through. I wonder if anyone in the painting world could laquer that patinated paint to preserve it as is. I doubt the original paint would have survived quite that well over the years unless the bike had been sealed in a dark box in a very dry space.

Bryanj:
I thought the pinstipes were decals from the factory

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.

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