Engine wanted

[Jay1969]

im tired of this but here goes, Jay, here are the words from malmojoe
"and you is doubt you could find the colour of a bike from an engine number unless you had someone on the inside."
the point ive made is that you simply cannot tell what colour the bike was off production line from an engine number, its a fact. all this talk of "someone on the inside " is just another way of saying it cant be done, not for you or I or any of the other thousands of zed enthusiasts. the information simply isnt available, cant be found, not there, unobtainable.
your question was " can we find out what colour a bike was off the production line from the engine number"
NO is the answer. thanks, over and out.

Yeah no worries, that's why I then asked if you could find the original paintset colour from my frame number (on page 2 of this thread) - "Mick, My frame number is 099*** - check Pierre's database http://www.kawa-z1.com/technics.shtml#database and the
nearest frame number to mine has it logged as original paintset that was with that was / is brown."

The End.

[mick znone]

morning Jay, sorry, i feel better after a nights sleep, working hard just now finishing a job. please accept my apologies for myrudeness mate, you throw up lots of interesting stuff on this forum and i think thats good. its always been my understanding that all information on bikes comes from the frame number. i wouldnt know how the colour schemes worked off the line, i would just guess that they did batches of brown and green as they felt were needed from sales. personally ilike to see a brown one because they are rarer. but most of all i like to see one painted in a new colour version of the old stripe set up, but thats only any good if you are keeping the bike because it can devalue £££ wise.

[Jay1969]

morning Jay, sorry, i feel better after a nights sleep, working hard just now finishing a job. please accept my apologies for myrudeness mate, you throw up lots of interesting stuff on this forum and i think thats good. its always been my understanding that all information on bikes comes from the frame number. i wouldnt know how the colour schemes worked off the line, i would just guess that they did batches of brown and green as they felt were needed from sales. personally ilike to see a brown one because they are rarer. but most of all i like to see one painted in a new colour version of the old stripe set up, but thats only any good if you are keeping the bike because it can devalue £££ wise.

As said, no worries, I saw a brown one at Ace Cafe Kawasaki Day in April,
and I agree, it's always nice to see any Zed in different colours, but there
is something so classic about them factory standard isn't there.
The pic below is the brown one I saw at the Ace Cafe.
I wonder how colourmatching the original factory brown is achieved!?

[mick znone]

a thing of beauty, would look even better without all that unnecessary chrome on it, scrap those exhausts and fit a nice exhaust craft stainless system on there and it would be spot on

[garyd]

And respray it green!

[Jay1969]

Jimi Hendrix psychedelic paint job, Sito exhausts, 2-Four Seat, Gold Henry Abe wheels, Basani 4-into-1, and we're half way there

[Z1parR]

Someone on here ,( i think over in Lincolnshire ) has a beauty of an A4 in red .
The paintjob and the bike look stunning , and the red is for me the 3rd colour of A4 that Kawasaki should have done .

[Jay1969]

Someone on here ,( i think over in Lincolnshire ) has a beauty of an A4 in red .
The paintjob and the bike look stunning , and the red is for me the 3rd colour of A4 that Kawasaki should have done .

Do you mean the guy had it sprayed in thou' wine red with A4 pin striping,
or another shade of red, but still with A4 pin striping?

[Z1parR]

It's painted a light red with A4 striping mate , the bike is a cracker .

[mick znone]

this was my a4 from 25 years ago, loved it in red. ive seen the recent red a4 with the a4 pin stripes, a real thing of beauty.

[neilbarrett]

na ,Kawasaki lost their way with paint work design on the z series after the z1b

[Jay1969]

It's painted a light red with A4 striping mate , the bike is a cracker .

Kawasaki Firecracker Red