Royal Enfield HiFi Blue ?

[R]

Someone here is looking to paint their 60s Enfield twin in the HiFi Blue listed then.
Anyone know if this a metallic colour, a candy apple colour or a pearl type paint ?

We see that RS Bikepaints lists it as Polychromatic HiFi Blue
- which would make it a single stage pearl type paint.
A more modern version may use a clear topcoat.

I recall seeing a nice example in Wales, done entirely using spraycans !
And a LOT of manhours....

A sample, selected at random.

[cardan]

Sorry can't really help. But the good news is there aren't too many REs of this period (are we close to 1970?) so it will probably never be parked next to another machine in the same colour. Always funny to see the "common" makes painted in a wide range of approximations to the original!

Leon

[Rex]

Yes and no. The final colour usually depended on what the paint shop foreman had in the vats that day, and nothing to do with an advertising pamphlet printed possibly months before.
Indian Red is a perfect example; Indian afficionados endlessly obsess over this, but the reality is it's just what old Billy-Bob and Cyrus had available to use.

[R]

Thanks for the comments folks.
Yes, experienced painters recommend painting a bikes topcoat all from the one can, if possible.
'Cause that 2nd can they supplied may not be exactly the same shade.
And I have seen this myself.
Mixing it up in a larger can then splitting into 2 smaller ones helps prevent this.



This, and other pics, should be good enough to get a match from.
Seems it was a single stage enamel pearl, in common with the numerous other shades of
polychromatic enamels Enfields used  over the decades.

Curiously, HD also used a pearl type shade they called HiFi blue. You can still buy it over the parts counter. ?
A stronger shade of blue though, it would be a mistake to assume it was the same.