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Online Don R

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750 K1 colors?
« on: October 21, 2016, 11:16:36 AM »
 On this site for the K1 I see candy ruby red, Candy gold, Candy Garnet brown and valley green listed as the available colors. This bike was Valley green, On other sites I also see candy blue green, one of the blue colors and others listed.
 
 What colors would be correct for a 71? my K0 will be candy blue green, there may be some economy in painting them both at once, and the same color since the K1 will be looking for a new home.  My painter has knocked candy Ruby red out of the park already so there is confidence in that.

 For awesome but non original, my wife's 2013 Accord is tiger eye brown. It gets comments all the time, it looks a lot like candy garnet brown with more metallic. That's a possibility too. With a gold, black and pearl K2 stripe?
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Re: 750 K1 colors?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2016, 12:09:56 PM »
I believe that the 71's had gold, blue green, ruby red, garnet brown and valley green...but I may be wrong as my wife tells me many times a day.....
My bike is Polynesian Blue but it was Japan only.
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Re: 750 K1 colors?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2016, 03:02:25 PM »
From http://honda750expert.com/

1971 US K-models
 Valley Green Metallic: color codes EF and G21M
 Candy Garnet Brown: color codes EE and YR2C
 Candy Gold: color codes CQ and Y2C
 Candy Ruby Red: color codes CM and R4C

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Re: 750 K1 colors?
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2016, 03:14:59 PM »
 Ok then, what I've been finding are international colors. The 4 above are US colors.
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Re: 750 K1 colors?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2016, 07:58:17 AM »
Well I was close....no blue/green which I always knew as tahitian Blue.....
Four colours makes sense.