1200 Restoration Red Paint Code and Stripes

[Grant]

Try to find an original colour on a piece of bodywork and get it matched.
That is what I did.
Good luck with trying to find the correct paint code.

 

[Richard 180.S2.81]

My '79 Honda CBX 1000 Candy Glory Red colour could be close to what you want. 

Even Honda don't have paint codes for their 70's bikes, whilst officially Candy Glory Red they never defined what that colour was!

Folks in the US have done extensive testing to recreate those colours (Red plus the 1979 Silver) through Colorite (they have a website) and created codes.  R-101C-U is Candy Glory Red, NH-101M-U is Perseus Silver Metallic and NH-1 is Black. When repainting Candy Glory Red, remember that Honda used a silver base coat under this. Code for the silver base is MA1075.

I image Laverda is the same - if it looks good then carry on.

My red over black (or is it black over red?) Jota looks similar to the BMW red/black misty scheme but every red/black Jota was painted individually by eye and all differ! Some in fact look totally different - Monday and Friday bikes.

The bottom line could be to go Grant's route, find a protected area of whatever you have and try to get it professionally matched.
Richard

 

[Shamrock]

Thanks Richard and Grant.

It sounds like the best way is to obtain a side panel or something with the original paint and have it color matched.  Anyone have a side panel in original 1200 red they are willing to loan or rent?     

Phil

 

[Shamrock]

I have located an NOS 1200 side panel and I will soon put an end to the mysterious 1200 red flake candy paint code by posting it on the forum.  As I did with the moss green seen here http://www.laverdaforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,91930.msg317414.html#msg317414

 

[Grant]

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[GPR1200]

If it helps my old 1200 tank was painted as follows (by someone else)

Candy Apple red concentrate
over
VolksWagen coarse silver
over
BMW Polaris silver base


The stripes (applied in many layers of paint only) and final lacquer as follows:
Clear lacquer
over
Orange stripe
over
White (I don't know why)
over
Black

Vinyl "swooshes" were used as a pattern. I think the build up of paint looked fantastic.

Paul

 

[Shamrock]

Finally got it back from the paint shop.  It looks very close to the loaner NOS sidecover I got from Wolfgang.

 

[aebbern]

Finally got it back from the paint shop.  It looks very close to the loaner NOS sidecover I got from Wolfgang.

Very interested in seeing this... but the photo doesn't display for me.

I also intend to borrow the same side cover from Wolfgang for my transformation from Lotus Electric Green to the OEM red/orange swoosh paint scheme.

Any more details on the paint codes used?

 

[Grant]

Red candy over silver base.
Shade of red depends how many coats of candy it gets.