This is c 1982. How it was originally
Late 80's. I'd put a Cycleglas / La Parisienne 3/4 fairing on it (it still exists at my brother's place!)
and had it resprayed a rather nice blue, but with a red pin stripe. The red basically clashed with the blue. I had originally wanted a red & white stripe, but the painter decided against it.
Moving in to the later 80's and early 90's. I began with sidecars. The 1st one was narrow.
The second one was 'wide thing'
Then my uncle gave the whole show a freshen up. As I previously posted, we used Mazda colours.
The outfit was removed in the late 90's and it went back to solo. It went on classic rego a couple of years ago. The paint was showing age and signs of neglect. Still, it was running so that was okay for a while
With other bikes coming and going, I figured 'now or never' for a respray. So I took to it utimately exposing the original silver & silver paint. Good enough to colour match, it's said.
I could have left it all to the painter, and ended up with a large bill for him to use his time sanding. I figured my time was cheaper and, if I follow advice, I can get a decent job done.
Removing several layers of paint, back to the plastic.
I took the tank and seat trims down to Bonegilla for back to bare cleaning.
And the damage reveal,
This one was during the most recent respray (to Mazda colours) - it fell off a work stand. Bogged up as it was a 'that'll do' type job.
This one was whilst it was blue. The bike was being test ridden by a mechanic (now a well known V8 Supercar crew chief and a good bloke too). He went around some deadly pedley treadley riders and lost it on some gravel. This was bogged as a rush job before I came home from a trip and picked the bike up.
As delivered today.
My painter expressed satisfaction with how well I'd got the plastic cleaned. As I told him, I don't mind doing the 'apprentice' jobs. It saves me money. More importantly it keeps me involved in the bike. It's not something I've just thrown cash at. I know my limits too. I enjoy turning spanners etc but I don't enjoy breaking things.
