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Motorcycle Discussions => British Bikes => Topic started by: Rattlehead on February 17, 2018, 08:37:55 PM
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Hi all, I'm restoring a 1949 excelsior roadmaster but can't find the paint spec anywhere, all I know is that it's maroon! Any ideas?
Thanks.
Andy.
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Your best bet is to take an original piece of maroon excelsior in to the painter/ suppler to have it matched. They often have books of colour chips, which you can choose from.
Unless someone here can supply a code - which often don't translate well across different paint manufacturers.
I'd suspect this would be a fairly good match - but is for another make.
https://s13.postimg.org/okcfde813/Model_G_Maroon_frame.jpg
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Unfortunately I can't take s piece of the bike in to a paint supplier as it has been hand painted.
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Look inside the toolbox or underneath the tank or some other place. If it was hand painted you can guarantee the painter will have missed somewhere.
Nor would I obsess too much about getting it exactly right. As a long standing two-stroke rider (mainly Excelsior) I can tell you no one will ever comment about how accurate your paint job is. We don’t seem to attract the obsessives.
Cheers,
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Yes, and I was going to suggest have you tried stripping off the handpainted efforts, to see if there is any surviving maroon underneath.
This bike's pics appear in a number of places, with varying shades of red/maroon.
This pic seems rather bright, it would generally be a shade or 2 darker.
(Reds are notoriously difficult to photograph)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Excelsior_U2_%281950%29_-_8724599500.jpg/800px-Excelsior_U2_%281950%29_-_8724599500.jpg)
The RAL paint numbers in the low 3000's cover dark reds, see if any match anything you can find. ?
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Thanks guys, I'll see if I can expose some of the old paint!