Headache Blue JPN Color

Hi all

Sorry to be bothering you guys yet again on this JPN paint scheme but it is becoming a bit of a headache for me in regards to the blue stripe.. I have had a lot of kind Norton owners advise me on possible colours to use such as: Vauxhall Atlantis blue and Rootes Ming Blue (we can not find the codes) .. The only reference my painter can find to the Ming Blue I have attached above ..

I am wondering if anyone would know of any more recent Japanese, English or American cars that we could get a close enough paint code from to finish this job ..
I have managed to come up with an off white code by taking my 75 T160 white /yellow gas tank in for code matching, my thoughts were surely Norton/Triumph in 75 would be using the same off white code ..

Any help, suggestions or codes on this blue would be greatly appreciated..

Cheers from down under
Paul ..

My paint supplier went to European database to find a code for the red color I was searching for, then crossed over to American database to find a paint chip. Don't know how they do that, but the key to finding the color was starting in the EU database.

It may only be a coincidence, but the color I was searching for was used on a British made auto (Ford Anglia) during the same years as the bike was being produced. Perhaps that is true for you, and would help narrow your search.

Good luck!

I'm not at all sure that the colour s easy to match with modern (post 1970s) paints as the effect over / next to the white that you choose will not be the same.

I have an idea that the original was a straightforward British Standard 'Oxford Blue' from the old BS381C range but I didn't like it when I tried it.

The blue that I now have has been tinted around until I liked it but I've rather gone the custom route with Ford Diamond White and Porsche Guards Red.

texasSlick said:

My paint supplier went to European database to find a code for the red color I was searching for, then crossed over to American database to find a paint chip. Don't know how they do that, but the key to finding the color was starting in the EU database.

It may only be a coincidence, but the color I was searching for was used on a British made auto (Ford Anglia) during the same years as the bike was being produced. Perhaps that is true for you, and would help narrow your search.

Good luck!

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Presumably not a Commando ? The old 'Angle Box' had pretty well been superseded before Commando production commenced.

79x100 said:

texasSlick said:

My paint supplier went to European database to find a code for the red color I was searching for, then crossed over to American database to find a paint chip. Don't know how they do that, but the key to finding the color was starting in the EU database.

It may only be a coincidence, but the color I was searching for was used on a British made auto (Ford Anglia) during the same years as the bike was being produced. Perhaps that is true for you, and would help narrow your search.

Good luck!

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Presumably not a Commando ? The old 'Angle Box' had pretty well been superseded before Commando production commenced.

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I was suggesting to search Brit auto paints of the same period!