1982 gs550ex red paint colour?

[Isetta]

Hi, I am in UK. I have a 1982 GS550EX in Metallic Red. This is eight valve model. It is similar to the older GS550E bikes except the EX had a bit of an update with rectangular instead of circular indicators and painted metal front mudguard instead of chrome (mudguard matches tank). My front mudguard (fender in USA) is absolutely rotten, when I got the bike in 1987 it was already splitting where rust had got between the main mudguard and the reinforcement between the fork legs. So i need to replace it. Does anyone know the name of the paint colour? Also, does anyone know from experience the name of a car paint used in the UK that is a good match. As it is just the mudguard I am doing a very slight variation could be acceptable. Seems very hard to find anything about this model of GS550. It seems vary rare and seemed like a last ditch update of the GS550E before the 16 valve monoshock version took over. There is also a GS550EZ which is like the EX but with fuel gauge and antidive forks. That was available in Metallic Red also but I don't know if it was the same metallic red as mine. Although I have had mine 35 years I have never seen another red GS550EX. I did see one red GS550EZ about 30 years ago. I think there may have been an almost identical 650 version in USA. Help on paint colour please

[Isetta]

I just found some pics of a GS650 in same colour as my GS550 (the pics of the red bike here): https://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Suzuki_GS650E

[Nessism]

The name of the color, and the paint code, is useless information, because there aren't any paint manufacturers with formulas for these old colors. Your best bet is to take a painted part to an automotive paint supply store and ask them to match the color. They will have a color computer to get the color match close, then a skilled mixer dude that knows how to fine tune the color match will take over from there. Every decent auto paint store provides services like this.

BTW, that 650 color seems to be called "Candy Fancy Maroon"...https://www.partzilla.com/catalog/su...s650e/optional