Purist Paint?

So there's my dilemma, the paint. The stock color on the parts still showing it seem to be browns/brown metallic (so 70's right?) but I was thinking of mixing things up a bit and going for like gunmetal gray frame and possibly that super light blue metallic seen on same era z1000's.
Is there a problem painting an otherwise stock bike a completely radical, or non-stock color? I tend to be a stock purist when or where possible but I always did like that Stardust metallic silver... hmmm[/quote]

So? What color are you painting the body parts? I'm sure your not building a ten point concourse show bike.
Pick a color and spray. some hand pinstripes , some vinyl graphics.

!Seymore wrote: Interesting bluej58... So, those are the original side covers and tail? (just askin' man...) I only ask because ALL the side covers I've seen have "Made in Japan" on them. But I also DON'T have any titles with a "5" as that first # in the VIN. Just askin' & learnin'...

Yes , those are the originals, now off the bike, but I found new/old parts from the same year and that is what is on the bike now.
All say MADE IN USA

Yea, I think the lil'bikes were still moulded in Japan and the big boy plastics here? Anyone gots an orig-77' 900 side cover they can look at?

@wrenchmonkey... not tryin' to HJ your thread, just learning...
Look forward to seeing (yea, PICs needed now) what you do with yours. It's all in what YOU want and what your gut tells you that you like. Go take a look at images on the WEB... GOOGLE it. You'll figure it out...

Maybe one of these stock KZ colors?

The more I look at it, the more I want Bossie to be like the first one again. My daughter doesn't like the stripes but I do now.
Steve

I do and they both say made in Japan.

missionkz wrote: I do and they both say made in Japan.

So you have a REAL Rice Burner, Bruce, :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Pete

missionkz wrote: I do and they both say made in Japan.

Weren't the 77 KZ1000A1's, at least some of them, built in Japan? what does it say on the headstock label, the one on my 77 KZ650B1 says made in Japan. The "Z" bikes going to Britain, Europe etc. were built in Japan, so it seems they were making identical panels in either country, at the same point in time.

Yes. Mine says made in Japan on the VIN label.


Added:
Parts from my old LTD KZ1000 do say made in the USA

Wasn't AMF parts made in Japan too?
Steve

missionkz wrote: Yes. Mine says made in Japan on the VIN label.


Added:
Parts from my old LTD KZ1000 do say made in the USA

I was sure there were Japanese built 77 KZ1000A1's, so I'll have to tell the wife I was right for once