Topic: Standard colour of bike.

[munzerelli1959]

Hi all. I'm a new kid on the block here. Can anyone please tell me what the original colour of my 1972 CB500/four should be? I want to restore it to its deserved former glory.
Thanx Chris.

[Glenn Stauffer]

You had three color schemes to choose from that year: Candy Jet Green with Black, Candy Garnet Brown with Black, or Candy Gold with Black.

Now, finding matches for those colors is going to be tough.  This information is from a guide to Honda colors that Lubritech published some time ago.  Likely no longer valid, but this gives you some idea as to how these bikes were painted.

CB 500 Model Factory Color Top Coat Middle Coat Base Coat Notes 1971 CB500 Candy Garnet Brown Candy Garnet Brown HC-16-204 Candy Silver Basecoat UC-16-100 Black trim Candy Starlight Gold Candy Starlight Gold HC-16-601 Candy Silver Basecoat UC-16-100 Black trim Candy Jade Green Candy Jade Green HC-16-904 Candy Silver Basecoat UC-16-100 The ID book's "Jet" Green may be a typo 1972 CB500 Candy Jade Green Candy Jade Green HC-16-904 Candy Silver Basecoat UC-16-100 Candy Garnet Brown Candy Garnet Brown HC-16-204 Candy Silver Basecoat UC-16-100 Candy Gold Candy Gold HC-16-600 Candy Silver Basecoat UC-16-100 1973 CB500 Candy Bacchus Olive Candy Gold HC-16-600 Blue Metallic Basecoat UC-16-106 Black and white trim Flake Sunrise Orange Candy Orange HC-16-202 Flake Silver Basecoat UC-16-103 Candy Silver Basecoat UC-16-100 Black and white trim Maxim Brown Metallic Maxim Brown Metallic HM-16-202 Black and white trim

--Glenn

[Paul]

Lubritech have gone out of business and their colour codes are no longer valid, I've had the same problem trying to get my 500K1 back to standard. Depending on where you are...One of us here has a set-up to mix these colours in the US. (Maybe along at sometime) and will post them to you (Forget your name appologies.). RS Paints in the UK will take the Chassis No. and give you the colour in question (www.rspaint or motorcyclepaint.co.uk - not sure) but they won't post out of the UK, I ended up spending about 1.5 hours in the shop going through colour cards and eventually picked out a brown for a Dacia (some eastern block car)"similar" to the Candy Garnet as listed. (be carefull with the Lubritech paint code - I found that the equivilant listed for this ended up being a Burgendy red.......Nice but not Candy Garnet Brown!)
Mines close enough and if your not a fanatic nobody will bother to notice the difference if any.