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Eddie,Funny thing about the paint: I bought the bike about 25 years ago as a rolling basket case. It had the scheme and I liked it but the paint was very tired. Whilst rehabbing the rest of it I brought the tinwork to a local auto shop that advertised that they did MC work. The manager assured me that he could duplicate the paint so I left it with him. Two weeks later I got a call saying the paint was stripped, what color did I want it? Needless to say I was furious! I stated the paint was to have been duplicated. Well, a week later it was "done", except it was totally FUBAR. After going up one side and down the other on the manager I was able to trace the scheme on a brand new MKIII that was still in the box. Armed with that the manager did the work instead of his apprentice and got it reasonably close. As much as I like blue I'm more fond of the white with red and blue, so the trade is off. :wink:That's the first time I've heard it referred to as Jubilee. I often hear it called JPN but that's just wrong. No one has ever presented, to my knowledge, any evidence that this scheme has anything to do with John Player.Jim
Eddie,
Funny thing about the paint: I bought the bike about 25 years ago as a rolling basket case. It had the scheme and I liked it but the paint was very tired. Whilst rehabbing the rest of it I brought the tinwork to a local auto shop that advertised that they did MC work. The manager assured me that he could duplicate the paint so I left it with him. Two weeks later I got a call saying the paint was stripped, what color did I want it? Needless to say I was furious! I stated the paint was to have been duplicated. Well, a week later it was "done", except it was totally FUBAR. After going up one side and down the other on the manager I was able to trace the scheme on a brand new MKIII that was still in the box. Armed with that the manager did the work instead of his apprentice and got it reasonably close.
As much as I like blue I'm more fond of the white with red and blue, so the trade is off. :wink:
That's the first time I've heard it referred to as Jubilee. I often hear it called JPN but that's just wrong. No one has ever presented, to my knowledge, any evidence that this scheme has anything to do with John Player.
Jim
