Candy :
Japanese motorcycles of the 60s and 70s often had beautiful paintings with metallic highlights. The CB750s wore "Candy Ruby Red", "Candy Gold" and Candy blue green dresses, and were not metallized paints to pass at one time, but of a composition of several layers:
a metallic gray or silvery bottom layer giving the metallized appearance.
a possible layer of "Flake silver" giving the species of glossy flakes.
a layer of tinted varnish with the dominant color. The more layers you spend, the darker the resulting hue is.
A final layer of clear varnish is often passed today, which covers the adhesive decor. It does not seem that this final layer existed originally.
Several websites give pictures of paintings used by Honda. But they are of little use because we do not know how to make the correspondence between these paintings and the modern paintings, which are all referenced by the manufacturers and the manufacturers of paintings. In fact, originally, Honda provided small pots of paint, intended to make retouching. It was a big novelty. Later, Honda-USA officially approved the now defunct US company Lubritech to distribute the paintings for its motorcycles in the USA. Finally, from 1982, Honda began selling his paintings to individuals and professionals. Honda did not manufacture them, but sold the products of Original Brand, which also sold directly to the public. This company was soon bought by Color Rite, which continued to sell the same products with the same references.
It was therefore only from 1982 that Honda used the color coding system as in the automobile. Before, even with the Lubritech tables, we have no reference. We can only rely on vintage machines, not restored and well preserved, to find the original colors.
Application of Candy paintings
The website
http://www.members.tripod.com/~Wrenchbender/tips.html, from which the above information comes, also publishes a guide to the application of Lubritech's paintings dating from 1974. It contains many safety recommendations (working in a ventilated room, no flame or cigarette nearby, no gasoline to degrease, etc.), practical recommendations (no silicone paint in the same room), and finally information about Candy paintings and their implementation (in English). The French site
http://www.cb500four.com also gives useful and practical information.
Otherwise, there are also these references
:
http://www.sprido-peinture.com/143-honda-moto
