I posted about this bike on the projects bike forum and noted it is a full on restoration of a decent looker with too many Chinese parts and short cuts in many areas. It did although have quite a bit on money spent on other areas such as a DSS reproduction seat and a full replacement 4 into 4 original style exhaust.
The restoration was done 8-10 years ago it appears and the restorer painted the body parts in what appears to be the Candy Bacchus Olive OEM colour. They installed the gas tank graphics over clear coat then didn't for some reason clear the pin stripe graphics. This led to the white stripes yellowing with age and impossible to clean up to white again.
I decided to remove them and buy replacement graphics and ended up damaging the paint slightly on the tank. I thought no problem my paint supplier can match that colour. No cigar. After two tries which were not close enough I thought about buying the correct colour from a US supplier who sells Candy Bacchus Olive. The issue is would that paint match correctly, or be off slightly too.
So I decided to use a really nice Ford emerald green that I had in stock with one of the close but no cigar colour matches in a 80% emerald 20% light green mixture. I have shot the tank and side covers and applied the new graphics. This time with a clear coat protective coating.
I still need to pull the front end back off the remove the headlight bucket and lower fork shrouds to match those to the other parts.
Here are the tank and side covers in the new emerald green mixture and I think I like it better than the original colour it pops pretty good with the tank graphics. Once I install the CB350F side cover badges and the tank HONDA logos I think it will be a sharp colour scheme.
The restoration was done 8-10 years ago it appears and the restorer painted the body parts in what appears to be the Candy Bacchus Olive OEM colour. They installed the gas tank graphics over clear coat then didn't for some reason clear the pin stripe graphics. This led to the white stripes yellowing with age and impossible to clean up to white again.
I decided to remove them and buy replacement graphics and ended up damaging the paint slightly on the tank. I thought no problem my paint supplier can match that colour. No cigar. After two tries which were not close enough I thought about buying the correct colour from a US supplier who sells Candy Bacchus Olive. The issue is would that paint match correctly, or be off slightly too.
So I decided to use a really nice Ford emerald green that I had in stock with one of the close but no cigar colour matches in a 80% emerald 20% light green mixture. I have shot the tank and side covers and applied the new graphics. This time with a clear coat protective coating.
I still need to pull the front end back off the remove the headlight bucket and lower fork shrouds to match those to the other parts.
Here are the tank and side covers in the new emerald green mixture and I think I like it better than the original colour it pops pretty good with the tank graphics. Once I install the CB350F side cover badges and the tank HONDA logos I think it will be a sharp colour scheme.