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Can any one tell me the colour that a green 1976 Z900 is painted? I need to touch mine up and wondered if any car paint is the same green.
regards JonD

Hi Jon

If you do a forum search on 'paint' you'll see this subject is a perennial favourite!!
Short answer - the 70's Zed colours were achieved by spraying a tinted candy lacquer over a silver metallic base coat - hence the considerable variation from one bike to the next. The factory finish looks fab but it's a PIG to touch up invisibly. Especially with a single 'solid' colour.
However, if you want to give it a go, call RS Paints - I spoke to them recently and I'm sure they said they'd created a match for the green from an original sample. Speak to Heidi - she knows her stuff.

Surely if there are variations in the original finishes as we know there are, then won't that mean that the mix they created from the paint sample will only be a match for the sample it was created from ?
Talk to them anyway as I'm no expert when it comes to paint. Come to think of it I'm no expert at anything.

Pasc - don't be difficult

The colour variations on candy paints were so sensitive. Z900's used to come 2 in a crate, and no two were ever the same shade. I'm afraid it's either get a paint mix to match your set, or bite the bullet and paint the lot, there was never a "proper" shade of any of the colours. For a lengthy conversation on the science of painting zeds (usually about 3hrs) give Mark Hutchinson a ring - he's the man in my opinion.

thanks folks

I gave a sprayer a N.O.S 900a4 tank to match colour.He came back with
an Alfa Romeo green,sprayed another set of body work for me,bloody good match?

Thanks thats the sort of reply I was after
regards Jon