Fireflake sliver

Does anyone have a color photo of Fireflake silver as used in 1969 on Fastbacks and maybe S types?
I was wondering if this is the same color used in the panels on the gas tank and tail of the Burgundy/Silver export models which I do have seen in person and has a small flake and is quite a bright silver as opposed to a grey silver as used on the Fastback oil tank and accessory covers.
Failing that I was going to order a small batch from RS paints and see what its like. Any experiences there?
Despite being listed as a color, Fireflake Silver bikes seem to be very rare. I've only seen period black and white photos.
Thanks,
Puffer

I don't have photos of any bikes, but I've worked on original silver tanks, and the flakes are in the gelcoat.
They're aluminium flakes, so the 'colour' is natural bright silver

The red/silver fastbacks are candy red over silver flake, and I suspect the 'R' and the red 'S' type are the same.
The other fireflake colours are coloured flakes - not candy topcoat, although the effect would be similar.

The only way to correctly replicate it is to buy some fine silver dry flakes and lay them on in lacquer - it isn't 'paint' as such, and takes a further 4-5 coats of lacquer to level off.

Was the entire world on LSD in 1969?

Old Scratcher said:

Was the entire world on LSD in 1969?

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That's funny Old Scratcher

Old Scratcher said:

Was the entire world on LSD in 1969?

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Uhhh... I don't remember, man 8)

I wasn't on LSD in 67 when a fellow traded me his perfect 57 ES2 for my Sears Western saddle. I was 12 years old at the time. My 15 year old brother convinced me that we could really make the bike look smart by tossing out the stock tank and replacing it with a 2 gallon Wassell Teardrop tank, which we painted in red metalflake, badly done of course.
Maybe LSD would have helped!

Glen

Thank heavens for the LSD.....those flaked bikes are badass.

The silver flake was a gel coat. At least per Brian Slark, the S models red or blue color was a tinted clear over the base silver. I was wondering because when I stripped the paint from an" S" I was reworking, the whole thing was silver underneath.

milfordite said:

The silver flake was a gel coat. At least per Brian Slark, the S models red or blue color was a tinted clear over the base silver. I was wondering because when I stripped the paint from an" S" I was reworking, the whole thing was silver underneath.

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Red, yes, but not the blue - in my experience, at least (quite a few) - or golden bronze, or emerald green etc., for that matter.

The fact is, when you start sanding them down you remove the dye layer from the flakes so they become silver, which is why I need to put so much lacquer over the top of the damn' things when I'm polishing them! :twisted:

Dog T, I have no idea whatsoever what that is you have there - is it some kind of side-stand support? 8)