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The wrong colour!
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 5:11 pm
by 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.
Re: The wrong colour!
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 6:37 pm
by SAM
Yes look at those early Rally pictures. Some very interesting colour schemes.
Re: The wrong colour!
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:32 pm
by Mitsui Spy
Bic_Bicknell wrote: 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.
Re: The wrong colour!
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 12:15 am
by Veteranix
Re: The wrong colour!
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:04 am
by Coxy
This was mine when I bought it, rattle can was obviously the style...
And after
Re: The wrong colour!
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 12:03 pm
by 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).
Re: The wrong colour!
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:36 am
by 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 . . . . .
Re: The wrong colour!
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 9:17 am
by 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 ? ".
Re: The wrong colour!
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:16 pm
by Madmax
Great idea.
