JPS or bicentennial Commando color scheme

My bike is a 1975/76 roadster Mk III. When it was new, the owner apparently left it out in the elements uncovered and when I got it, 20 yr ago, it already was oxidized to the point that rubbing compound was useless. It languished lo these many years and now the whole bike is quite tatty and it's going to be a Summer project. What I need to know is paint specs for the red, white, blue colors. The paint supplier, listed in the site doesn't list those colors. Does someone have the specs for a car paint that are appropriate and a good painter who can replicate the stripes properly? Thanks!

Ya know,
when I got my 75 interstate (basket case / junkyard special) it had red white and blue paint.
I asked a norton guru and was told that they were never produced that way.
So, I just forgot about it (until reading this post) .
It's interesting to see that someone else has one in those colors.

Maybe someone here knows!

Mark said:

Ya know,
when I got my 75 interstate (basket case / junkyard special) it had red white and blue paint.
I asked a norton guru and was told that they were never produced that way.

Maybe someone here knows!

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IIRC only the roadster came with the white tank w/ red and blue stripe scheme. Unfortunately, can't help with the color codes.

Contact Brent at the vintage vendor, endless threads about his excellent paint work.

http://www.vintage-vendor.com/

Hello Powerdoc,

I made the same enquiry last year, and I was told by helpful forum member, Keith I think?

The white is Diamond white, not sure car brand.
The blue is Atlantis Blue, Vauxall colour
The red is Zinnobar, BMW colour

I went to my local Glasurit stockist, and they mixed up the colours on the spot, too easy eh?
I also got some of their really good HS clear coat.
Another member hear posted some shots of an original damaged tank, in the WBR scheme. This made it
resonanbly easy to nut out the stripes, I set the tank and side covers up on the bike to get the alignments correct. Norton side covers sit slightly rear down, and the stripes follow this, so typically the fule tanl and side covers are slightly out of alignment. I will try and post some pictures for you.

Cheers Richard

Thanks for the help. I think the white color is a Vauxhallh, IIRC, from reading another post somewhere but it's good to get more than one person saying it. I'm going to take endless pix of the bike before I have it painted to show the painter as it's been noted that the lines are skewed a bit to look straight when the bike is upright and not always going with the lines of the tank or side pieces.

Congratulations! I have the same MK111 ,same American marketed (presuming) colour scheme of red ,white and blue although the ownership in my hand states white. $ 800 back in 1989 with a bad starter system but only 10,000 miles on odometer. Seller's phone was ringing constantly as I pressed $200 into his hands telling him I would return in 15 mins. with the $600 more and as I had arrived on a Norton and left my girlfriend with him as security deposit too he said yes it's yours. Change out the layshaft bearing and drive off into the sunset. Peter.

Torontonian said:

Congratulations! I have the same MK111 ,same American marketed (presuming) colour scheme of red ,white and blue although the ownership in my hand states white. $ 800 back in 1989 with a bad starter system but only 10,000 miles on odometer. Seller's phone was ringing constantly as I pressed $200 into his hands telling him I would return in 15 mins. with the $600 more and as I had arrived on a Norton and left my girlfriend with him as security deposit too he said yes it's yours. Change out the layshaft bearing and drive off into the sunset. Peter.

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$200 and the girlfriend for a JPS commando= good deal!!!

Diamond White is a Ford Europe perennial. It's never long out of the range somewhere. The tank in my avatar is in Diamond White but I can't recall the blue and red. He was painting lots of Ducatis with spring-loaded sidestands at the time so it's probably a Ducati red and they had a habit of pinching Fiat colours.

I'd suspect that the original Norton stripe was Signal red. Make sure that it's not too orange and the blue not too dark because Diamond White seems to make blues look darker than they otherwise are.

The scheme was available everywhere . Page 131 of Roy Bacon's 'Norton Twin Restoration' shows a new machine in this scheme on what looks to me to be the approach to the workshops at Gus Kuhn's.