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Nice to see you reserecting this bike . nice job. You going with orriganal paint scheme?

Yes.
The colour will be a tri-colour red very similar to the original, maybe a little darker though. I am getting the orginal pin stripes made locally at a friends shop. But what I am going to try to do is get them to make a side cover decal that ties the tank and tail section together. I always felt there should have been one. Almost like they forgot to make it. Both pinstripes lead to the side cover but go to nothing.
It will look sharp.

Nice I thought you might go with the the one in your avitar for a min.

vintagebiker wrote: Yes.
The colour will be a tri-colour red very similar to the original, maybe a little darker though. I am getting the orginal pin stripes made locally at a friends shop. But what I am going to try to do is get them to make a side cover decal that ties the tank and tail section together. I always felt there should have been one. Almost like they forgot to make it. Both pinstripes lead to the side cover but go to nothing.
It will look sharp.

Yeah the side covers would pop a lot better with the deals on them as well.

I was going to paint it similar to my avitar, which is the prototype colours for the original kz7500 1967, before kawi decided to bump up the cc's to compete with the cb750.
Got the paint laid down today, my painter and I had a difficult time findind a good similar colour to the original. The Kawaski vintage iluminous red is way to dark. We went with a european ford red tri colour. here are some of the pics during paintting. the base is a copper silver colour, looks salmon colour to me.

Clear coat not on yet, still looks flat, wait till the decals are on and 2 more coatsof clear.

Paint on, looks great, decals on next Tuesady than 2 more coats of clear.

wow...no emblems anymore though

The original emblems will be on still. The decals i'm talking about are the NIKE looking pin stripes that wrap around the tank on both sides.

Looks great!

like the orig ones.. so cool.....either way nice work

real real real nice

your gonna have folks walking up to chat old days everywhere you ride it

i cant take mine to the corner store even, without meeting folks who had one,or have always wanted one, or have some brother-friend-uncle years back..or had a rd or cb ,gs......on and on.....yours is set to be unreal

keep up the great work...more pics too...

this is what makes this site so special....these bikes get done..guys like you take a basket bike and know where it is heading and set to it....other sites are all talk or cookie cutter bikes....

KZRIDER.... get it done!!!!!
on a regular deal too...you and others weekly inspire and the ball keeps rolling uphill...

Craig

vintagebiker wrote: The original emblems will be on still. The decals i'm talking about are the NIKE looking pin stripes that wrap around the tank on both sides.

The next pics I post will be the completed bike next week some time. I might do a you-tube video as well of the first start up. I hope she runs, fingers crossed. I have never heard this bike run and i know it hasn't run in at least 5 years maybe 7 or 8.