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Matching paint color

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Hi All,

I have been lurking around this forum since I got my GS850 last Fall. This is my second post, the first is in the GS Stories category. I believe I have resolved most of my mechanical issues and have added a Plexifairing 3; now it's time for cosmetic details. My gas tank has several minor nicks in the paint and one spot about the size of a dime where the paint is missing. At this point I don't want to repaint the tank and prefer to just touch it up.

The bike is a 1979 GS850 (G) and if I had to guess at the color I would call it "midnight blue". I am sorry to say that the local Suzy dealer is someone I have vowed never to deal with again, and will not set foot on their property. I also make it my business to tell every local biker I encounter about this dealer's attitude and how they treat customers. I really don't know how they can keep their franchise. But I digress. Here's my question; has anyone found a line of touch-up paint with colors that closely match the older Suzuki colors.

Thanks in advance for your responses.

JR
 
JR,

I don't know about commercially available touch up paint, but I doubt if you'll find it. If you want an exact match (or as close as modern physics will allow), take the tank or the bike to a PPG automotive paint jobber. Ask them to use the "Prophet" device to get a paint match for you. This is an electronic device that they will place on several places on the tank and then link it to their computer. The results basically tell them exactly how to mix your paint color. This method is extremely accurate. I have used this when painting fenders on older cars and no one who I asked could tell the difference. I am restoring a '78 GS750 that is also dark blue - I don't know if it is the same blue as your '79, but this is exactly the method I used to get the original color.

rickt
 
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