Lambertta Colour?

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Bristolmods got the only surefire way of finding a clue - you need to look where blasting & resprays are unlikely to have touched it - inside the frame headstock and in the engine mount tube on the frame are a couple more places to investigate.
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So other than the above there's no real , sure way of knowing from frame and engine number?
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Did a little bit more Digging as they Say... Found this Colour

Any ideas??

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Might need to Zoom in on lock catch!
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The lock/catch would not have been painted by Innocenti.
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I think you're probably right. I doubt Innocenti would have sprayed it in situ and plastered the rivets and all.
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bristolmod wrote: If its an li125 s3 it's probably duck egg blue
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In the US it's been called Riverside blue, LI Blue, Baby blue etc etc.

At the end of the day I call it a manly blue

Reality is your LI was either blue or mint green, pick a color and run with it.

If you can find a little spot under the frame loop that wasn't painted over you MIGHT be able to ascertain what color it was from the factory. The blue and green look a lot alike after 53 years.

There are no color descriptors tied to frame numbers (unlike modern cars).
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How many Colours were used in '62
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