Day One
Today it starts. I got a call about 11:20am today. The call was from the local delivery driver. He asked if I would be home in the next hour. I said “Yes I will.”
After getting the bike into the garage the first thing I did was to pull off the carburetor. After doing this I was finally able to get the part number off of it and try to look it up on the interweb. I found it but didn’t get much help from it. I guess I will just have to see how it goes after getting some of the other thing cleaned up first.
As you can see I got the tanks off the bike. In order to do this I also had to take off the seat. Oh something else I found out about the bike today. I used to be gold. The inside of the tanks didn’t get much red paint. They apparently didn’t tank the tins off to paint them. Then looking at some of the scratches it looks like there is rust, primer, gold, and finally red paint. So I want to have the tins and frame completely striped and repainted. We’ll see how that goes.
If you look closely you can see the bend in the seat T frame. I will have to work on that. I am still waiting for a call back from a restorer so I can get a feel for the next/first steps but I want to start cleaning out the insides of the tanks. The other option would be to start checking the electrical system. We’ll see. So for now he’s back to sitting. But at least there’s movement. 🙂
Was gold an original factory color? Sand a spot carefully with fine wet-n-dry to see all the layers of paint and primer.
Sparkeling Burgendy
with White
and Black Wrinkle
Black
with White
and Black Wrinkle
Sparkeling Blue
with White
and Black Wrinkle
Jetfire Orange
with White
and Black Wrinkle
Birch White
http://www.freewebs.com/colorwrite/colors/1968.html
those are the original colors.
From what I can tell the original pain was removed and gold is what is on top of the primer. This is assuming the are the original tins and not replacements.