The wrong colour!

[Bic_Bicknell]

Back in the day, (1982) there was no Kawasaki Triples Club, there was no one who knew what colour a 1975 S3 candy red colour code was, there was no where to buy Rick Brett tank transfers, there was no-one who would think this was wrong.

You just had to go to your local car-care shop in the village and buy whatever they had in the back of the shop! I thought I did well to get some pretty glittery, purple rattle cans! I made my own masks and sprayed the lettering and pinstripes with an old Humbrol airbrush powered with air from an an over inflated car tyre.

Those were the days.

[SAM]

Yes look at those early Rally pictures. Some very interesting colour schemes.

[Mitsui Spy]

an old Humbrol airbrush powered with air from an an over inflated car tyre.

Ha! I had one of those. 'Orrible black plasticky thing. Not though about that in 30 years.

[Veteranix]

See the library at the left. Cheers.
http://3cyl.com/mraxl/paint/triple_colo ... od01e.html
Matching colours (USA)
http://kawtriple.com/mraxl/serialno.html

[Coxy]

This was mine when I bought it, rattle can was obviously the style...


And after

[Bic_Bicknell]

Did you do the stripe yourself? Is it painted as well? It doesn't look like the usual transfer (because the end is very pointed).

[El Presidente]

I believe the Club was a Year old in 1982 That 400 rings a bell, do you remember the Reg number ? I also painted the lettering on my AVONS on my H2c, along with hideous home made paint jobs covering up lovely original paintwork I remember around 30 Years ago, Dave Miller brought his h1b to a Rally and it won best in show . . . He brought it back 15 Years later and it came last in show, just a small insight into how restorations and information had moved on in a decade or so . . . . .

[Neil the Don]

EVERYBODY , except Sam, had their Triples painted in garish ways back in the day !!!!

Before the Internet, and when we were MUCH younger , and poorer. It was the norm .

A lot of us rode our bikes to work. So a new paint job was a Saturday job with a few cans of paint from Halfords.

I used to respray my Cromwell full face helmet about once a month. It. Was a Barry Sheene replica for a while , and ended up being a copy of my white S1 tank. It looked brilliant at the time . Gawd knows what it would appear to us now ?!!

I also mixed up some humbrol enamel to replicate the faded green top stripe on the 72 S1 . Touched it in using a humbrol hobby kit airbrush.
Same thing looked ACE !!!!!

Maybe we should start doing it again. Have a trophy at Rsllies for " best rattle an paint job ? ".

[Madmax]

Great idea.