recommend modern paint to match JPN in Canada

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I spent way to much time trying to narrow down the colours needed to paint my tank. I think it would be fairly easy if i was in the UK were the prefered colours would be readily traceable but not necessarily in Canada, since some of the cars never got here. Has anyone done this in north america recently? here are the names but what are the number codes to use for the paints we get nowadays?

white =ford diamond white
blue = opel vauxhall atlantis blue
red=bmw cinnabar red
 
I tracked down the paint code for my Atlas tank, a cherry red. Turned out it was used on a Ford Anglia in the years 1960 to '66.
Once I knew the auto it was used on, my local PPG paint dealer found it in a European Code Book, and crossed it over.

Perhaps your local dealer has a vintage auto Euro code book and can do the same for you.

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850commando said:
I spent way to much time trying to narrow down the colours needed to paint my tank. I think it would be fairly easy if i was in the UK were the prefered colours would be readily traceable but not necessarily in Canada, since some of the cars never got here. Has anyone done this in north america recently? here are the names but what are the number codes to use for the paints we get nowadays?

white =ford diamond white
blue = opel vauxhall atlantis blue
red=bmw cinnabar red
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850commando said:
I spent way to much time trying to narrow down the colours needed to paint my tank. I think it would be fairly easy if i was in the UK were the prefered colours would be readily traceable but not necessarily in Canada, since some of the cars never got here. Has anyone done this in north america recently? here are the names but what are the number codes to use for the paints we get nowadays?

white =ford diamond white
blue = opel vauxhall atlantis blue
red=bmw cinnabar red
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Are you talking about a JPN or the white with red and blue stripe 850 roadster that some call JPN?
recommend modern paint to match JPN in Canada
 
I have the red/white/blue Roadster. Sorry but it was repainted over 30 years ago so the codes lost. My blue is a little darker than an original anyway.

This guy has done lots of Nortons and did my son's Triumph and may be a source: https://vintage-vendor.com/

Other than the fact the JPN was red/white/blue there doesn't seem to be anything that indicates that the Roadster scheme has any relationship to John Player.
 
It’s been discussed before. I’ve been harangued for saying this before, but Norman White told me the RWB Roadster was never called the JPN at / by the factory, it was referred to as the Jubilee according to Norman.
 
These are the colours for the RWB Roadster I have found over the years, which are right is down to the viewer in the end.

Ford Diamond White, the Red was BMW Cinnabar and the blue Vauxhall Atlantic blue

JPN Red Commando British Leyland Flame Red
JPN Blue Commando Rootes Ming Blue


Duplicolor BNS0562 Super White.
Duplicolor BFM0306 Ford Cardinal red
Duplicolor BFM0340 Ford Royal blue

recommend modern paint to match JPN in Canada


recommend modern paint to match JPN in Canada
 
Is there not a way to accurately colour match paints using modern technology/spectrophotometers?
 
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Is there not a way to accurately colour match paints using modern technology/spectrophotometers?
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Yes, if you have a sample. I painted a damaged headlamp cover for my buddy's Lotus. Brought it to the local auto paint store and they scanned it and mixed me an exact match.
 
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Is there not a way to accurately colour match paints using modern technology/spectrophotometers?
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sure if i had a sample.

Kommando: thanks. i am now hunting for a local painter and with your info we should be able to get this moving.
 
850commando said:
sure if i had a sample.

Kommando: thanks. i am now hunting for a local painter and with your info we should be able to get this moving.
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So if you can find someone, maybe on this site, who has a JPN in original paint and can arrange for a local paint shop to do a scan, or someone who previously had a bike scanned, then all you'd need is to have the results sent to your local paint shop for matching.
 

Pictures of your Norton Commandos

Well, at least the clutch and front brake are Commando. My daily ride since 1995.
www.accessnorton.com www.accessnorton.com

Post 1048 in the above thread. On the road and don't have any access to a better photo. As I recall the blue used was a Ford royal blue but when I looked at a brand new, in the box roadster the blue looked a little lighter but not as light as that on a JPN. Now that I think of it I had the #s written in an original shop manual but someone wanted it more than I.
 
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I just found the colors my tank was painted over 30 years ago. Shop that did the work matched to color chips they had from what seemed the least faded paint buffed up a bit. White: Dupont L9019K; Blue B555K; Red W8432K; Imron clear. I wrote them in the Rider's manual.

I think my white is a little "cooler" than original and my blue maybe slightly darker. They closely match the color chips in the above posts so you probably won't go wrong with them or, since the ability to match today is much better than by eye decades ago, and if you have an area on your tank to buff up a bit, go there.

Good luck, I liked that paint scheme back when I saw it in MC mag ads in the '70s and then happened to buy one. Of cours some of the custom schemes the Vintage Vendor do appeal to me as well.
 
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