Hi,
I’m new to the forum and was hoping to get clarification on paint colour for my year of bike, a CB750 K5, manufactured September 1974. It is currently a faded sunrise orange candy flake and from what I understand this colour was not available for the K5 model. I’ve ruled out a faded flake red which I understand is a K5 colour and can fade to an orange appearance, because the orange is still very vivid where it has not been exposed to the sun. And it is obviously not planet blue. The bike didn’t have side panels when imported from the US to the UK so no help there.
The other query I have is also with the tank. The fuel tap is on the right, but I understand it moved to the left for the K5 model. However, I read there were some K5 bikes that had the fuel tap on the right (I assume as old stock was used up).
Could it be possible this bike was supplied with a sunrise orange tank with fuel tap on the right if manufactured in September 1974 (K5) model? Has any other owners seen this?
Regards,
Andrew.