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Love the scooter Rui - very very nice - but that number plate

Rui wrote:

joespeed wrote:thats a very nice restoration .the gp is still a good looking scooter,why did you paint the frame grill yellow it would look nicer in black!
regards
joe

Thank you for the nice comment, why I left the grill yellow (I called it ochre) is because it should be that colour.

Here is a picture before resto as you can see all original but tatty.

rui,i can see that yours is colour code in the picture but i cant remember any of the gp's that i owned (into 100's in the early seventies)ever having any other colour than black on all gp models and colour variants the later gp grills ,horn,frame louvre became plastic in black,are you sure the scooter hhas not been painted because(time faded)it does not look like ocre too yellowish,
others may comment and have early brochures to prove,
still looks a very good scooter though!
regards
joe

joespeed wrote:

Rui wrote:

joespeed wrote:thats a very nice restoration .the gp is still a good looking scooter,why did you paint the frame grill yellow it would look nicer in black!
regards
joe

Thank you for the nice comment, why I left the grill yellow (I called it ochre) is because it should be that colour.

Here is a picture before resto as you can see all original but tatty.

rui,i can see that yours is colour code in the picture but i cant remember any of the gp's that i owned (into 100's in the early seventies)ever having any other colour than black on all gp models and colour variants the later gp grills ,horn,frame louvre became plastic in black,are you sure the scooter hhas not been painted because(time faded)it does not look like ocre too yellowish,
others may comment and have early brochures to prove,
still looks a very good scooter though!
regards
joe

Earlier GPs had metal horn and rear frame grills, front painted black rear painted to match frame. My J plate gp had black plastic grills front and back.

As an asside, I 'liberated' a metal horn grill from a brand new, out of the box Indian GP in the 80s. That grill is on my old GP Infected, that Shade's from Redcar now has.

Hi Joe and Mag

I have owned about 15 Dl200 and they all have had metal ochre rear grill and black horn grill, my scooter is from 1969 and was imported from Portugal maybe different speck to UK "GP models".

and thanks for the comments ....Happy New Year to both.

Rui

OK turn to page 147 of stickies book ,it explains briefly about the body colour grills

RICSPEED wrote:OK turn to page 147 of stickies book ,it explains briefly about the body colour grills

Sorry don't have the book Looking through my pics of the Dl200 there are a few with Ochre rear grill and ochre horn grill, my own scooter had the black grill which was in the tool box.

Here are 2 that I previously owned.





Links...........

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... N%26um%3D1

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... N%26um%3D1

http://www.motoinfo.it/public/images/sc ... 1970-l.jpg

Rui wrote:

RICSPEED wrote:OK turn to page 147 of stickies book ,it explains briefly about the body colour grills

Sorry don't have the book Looking through my pics of the Dl200 there are a few with Ochre rear grill and ochre horn grill, my own scooter had the black grill which was in the tool box.

Here are 2 that I previously owned.





Links...........

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... N%26um%3D1

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... N%26um%3D1

http://www.motoinfo.it/public/images/sc ... 1970-l.jpg

just explains that early ones were body colour but changed to black just prior to the plastic ones