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Here's one way...
Or if it is the original tank for the bike you can find what colors were available that year, and/or get a despatch record from Andover Norton that will tell you model, color, date etc... of your bike when it left the factory way back when
Or if it is the original tank for the bike you can find what colors were available that year, and/or get a despatch record from Andover Norton that will tell you model, color, date etc... of your bike when it left the factory way back when
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Possibly if you get lucky the Andover data may contain that detail. But most of 1973 is missing and the latter info only has model and date.Here's one way...
Or if it is the original tank for the bike you can find what colors were available that year, and/or get a despatch record from Andover Norton that will tell you model, color, date etc... of your bike when it left the factory way back when
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The dealers would swap tanks and side panels around all over the show anyway, so what left the factory on a given frame might not be what left the show room floor to the first owner.
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Same on my 1970 Norton Commando. According to dispatch records the bike was delivered as a black roadster to Gus Kuhn, London.
Tank and side panels were fibreglass.
Underneath I found Fireflake Royal Blue Metalflake. Maybe the brits preferred the traditional colours. Same on the side panels.
Tank and side panels were fibreglass.
Underneath I found Fireflake Royal Blue Metalflake. Maybe the brits preferred the traditional colours. Same on the side panels.
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If you have 151673 to 151703, 200180 to 200389 or 205883 to 205903 I have the records. 0nly the 151xxx sheets have color listed though.
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