Atlantic Blue Colour for 1960 Dominator

laurentdom

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Hi All,


I'm looking for a spray of blue which matches the Blue coupled to "Dove Grey" which was the colour scheme of 1960 De Luxe dommies.

I got the Dove Grey and 2 sprays of blue from RS Bikepaint in the UK. Their Dove Grey is perfect, but their Atlantic Blue is far too bright and their Tunisian Blue is too dark.

(BTW, they are very helpful and fair).

Does anyone know where I could find that blue?

Many thanks,

L.
 
Can't help you, but yours is the 2nd post I have read in a week saying they have RS colours that do not match, a pattern is emerging.

And this will confuse as well but it should match one of the blues you would hope but which one?

http://www.nortonownersclub.org/support ... and-paints

Atlantic (Tunisian) Blue Model 99 De Luxe / Mercury Chrysler Caribbean Blue 80 GL24435
 
The usual plan here is to find a bit of dommie in the correct shade, and get it matched.
Including borrowing bits off other owners.
And make it known to the paint mixer its not yours, on the pain of death if it gets damaged.
The inside of your toolbox etc has got nothing ... ?

This 1960 Deluxe seems about right ??
Atlantic Blue Colour for 1960 Dominator

Atlantic Blue Colour for 1960 Dominator

We on the right track here ?

I have a Mercury inner primary cover, and I'd have said it was quite a different blue to those Deluxes of the early 1960s.
Atlantic Blue Colour for 1960 Dominator
 
Any metallic will adopt the darkness of the base coat , to a degree . Likely the Std Norton SILVER . Or youll never match it .
 
Red Lizard Classic Motorcycles and RS Bike Paint have teamed up to offer a New and easy to use motorcycle paint matching service.


No use then as it is RS database as suspected.
 
Thanks to all of you for your help.

Yes Rohan, your Dommie pictured shows exactly the blue I need.

Just to tell where I am coming from: my Dommie looks exactly the same as Rohan's picture, so I have a perfect example of the blue I need. I'm in the process of changing the whole front end for a Commando one. Hence I want to paint the 7" 3/8 fork yokes in blue, needing no more than a few spoons of paint (say: 1 spray can).

I considered taking a part of my Dommie as a sample for the paint maker, but I guess it will be difficult finding one ready to fabricate 250 cc of paint bottled in a spray can at an acceptable price.

Cheers,

L.
 
Forgot to mention:

If you need the blue pictured in Rohan's seconf photo (lower fork yoke) go to RSbipe paint and ask for their ATLANTIC BLUE which should match really closely.

To me, they should rather call it CARRIBEAN BLUE but colours are a matter of feeling isn't it?
 
laurentdom said:
Thanks to all of you for your help.


Just to tell where I am coming from: my Dommie looks exactly the same as Rohan's picture, so I have a perfect example of the blue I need. I'm in the process of changing the whole front end for a Commando one. Hence I want to paint the 7" 3/8 fork yokes in blue, needing no more than a few spoons of paint (say: 1 spray can).


Cheers, L.
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Hope you got the Atlas/Commando front wheel!
domi wheel will not fit in 7 3/8 fork yolks and vice versa. :!:
 
Bernhard said:
domi wheel will not fit in 7 3/8 fork yolks and vice versa. :!:
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Not entirely so, Bernard ?
Dommies had the 7 & 3/8 yokes for some years too.
 
Bonjour Bernhard & Rohan,

Yes I got a late Atlas / early Commando set of 7" 3/8 yokes and a Commando disk-brake front wheel.

(it's true that you cannot fit a Commando disk-brake front wheel in 7" yokes).

L.
 
Bernhard said:
Where did you get this information from :?:
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Out of the Norton parts book - and off their brochures.
Wider front tyres happened well before the Commando.
Anytime you post on dommies, its worth checking your info ??
 
my 1962 Domi is a late 500cc version with 7 3/8 yokes and all-horizontal finned aluminium cylinderhead. So in my humble opinion 7 3/8 yokes are introduced well before Commando
 
Chris_van_p said:
my 1962 Domi is a late 500cc version with 7 3/8 yokes and all-horizontal finned aluminium cylinderhead. So in my humble opinion 7 3/8 yokes are introduced well before Commando
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Your a lucky man. Thats a rare bike. I wonder how many 500s were made after 1962. Is it an SS?

John
 
well John, its far from original when I bought it some 8 years ago and from then on it s put to use in classic racing so its even less original. Five speed gearbox with Triumph T140 cluster and Nourish shell and commando clutch, Ignitech ignition fitted on crank. Im using the place where the magneto was for an automotive crackcase breather creating a vacuum. 2 Amal monoblocs 1 1/8 where I cut off the floatbowls. Affordable smoothbore! Amal remote matchbox floatchamber regulates fuellevel.
 
Getting codes for NORTON paint off another makers list is not always a good idea... ?

I can go to my local auto shop and have them mix up a small spray-can of matched paint to a sample.
There is no-one near you that can do the same... ?
 
johnm said:
Your a lucky man. Thats a rare bike. I wonder how many 500s were made after 1962. Is it an SS?
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We diverge, but the 500SS was in the catalog until 1965 or 1966 was it ?
So was the Atlas.
So was the 650SS - and then along came the Mercury.
 
Here is another Atlantic Blue crossover I found:


Mercury Atlantic Blue Chrysler Carib. Blue G124435
 
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