Topic: Ideas for painting my CB750 ..... need your creativity!

[Sgt.Pinback]

Hi guys,

I have an old fuel tank and a small fairing that will fit my CB750 (K0) p&p

So I am looking for a groovy-period correct-end 60th - early 70th-flower-power-hippie- paint.

Any ideas, any pics, any paint shop gurus?

Basis should be candy ruby red as the  other parts (sidecover, airbox etc.) will not be painted.

Thanks for any input!

[PlungerWaffle]

I vote for colour changing paint.

[kerryb]

Scallops...they are timeless.  Candy ruby red on the front of the tank and off-white cream behind

[flybox1]

60's/70's paint?   Makes me think of the Dodge and Volkswagen van culture
Lots of cool paint jobs there. Candies and metal flake.  Stripes and geometric shapes.

[Don R]

 Panel paint with Lace inside.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/candy-lace-flake-flames-wanna-see-wild-custom-paint.257556/


 Scroll down to the 66 Triumph.

[whitjonw]

If the van is a rockin' don't come a knockin' 

[754]

I could be wrong, but painting like a KO, whith the stripe on the fairing may look good..... Or a stripe like it worked into the custom paint..

[BomberMann650]

Tie dye hydro dip

[Bootsey]

The Tracy body kits seemed to sport some awesomely funky get-ups

[ekpent]

 Doesn't get much more 70's than that Tracy stuff.

[jgger]

A friend of mine did his Sportster with pinstripe tape kind of like the old "pipes" screen saver. laid it out over his main color then air brushed the stripes with about 4 or 5 different colors. Looked pretty good. The shape of that tank would lend it's self to that.

I remember that lace panel thing, thought it was really cool.........way back in the day. Around So Cal there was a painter that did the lace and also did a fish scale thing too. The local Honda shops used to sell exchange gas tanks for 305 scramblers, you weren't really cool unless you had a "Paint by Molly" tank and fenders!

[RAZZ]

Look at Larry watsons http://zzchop.blogspot.dk/2014/09/larry-watson-files.html?m=1


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[Sgt.Pinback]

Very good links ans ideas!
Keep them coming.

[calj737]

Candy Ruby Red with a heavy flake, but the pinstripes in tye-dye airbrush. And definitely include the stripe to the fairing.