Scooterotica

Anyone know the exact colour of the British sold Jets of the early 70s?

If you mean the ochre colour, the short answer is that no one does and there doesn't appear to be a code. There is a Lada colour that is so close that it's hard to tell the difference or you can find some original paint and get it matched.

The one on the right is mine which I had matched to the original paint and the one on the left is a standard Lada colour

I'd like to see one of those alongside something painted in Yellow Ochre.

now they look very very very sweet..

at 17 i hated that colour ....wierd that i like it now

must be an age thing

yeah they do look good

RICSPEED wrote:at 17 i hated that colour ....wierd that i like it now

must be an age thing

yeah they do look good

I hated it before I restored the scoot. I agonised for ages about whether to restore it or paint it a different colour. Now it's done I love it. Likewise GPs. In the 80s everyone hated the "horrible sh!t brown ones" but now they're the most popular.

On the lcgb forum series 1,2,3 about a month ago under 'jet 200 log book colour' I asked how the ochre colour was described on the original log books. Out of nowhere somebody put the lechler code for jet ochre.From memory it could have been 8073. Personally I've never seen this code before never mind the physical paint finish from it.
As previous posts, get it matched from original shade. I'm just getting on with building a 73 jet with paint matched from the underside of the bridge piece. The guy at the paint shop had books of colour cards & the shade I ended up with isn't a car make or anything there was just a code on the back of the colour card.
I looked at the 'lada 208' card & it wasn't the same as what I've ended up with but it's just a matter of personal taste at the end of the day.

eibarlad wrote:On the lcgb forum series 1,2,3 about a month ago under 'jet 200 log book colour' I asked how the ochre colour was described on the original log books. Out of nowhere somebody put the lechler code for jet ochre.From memory it could have been 8073.

It was 8072 on that thread.

Just found this list which mentions 8072 as a 1965 colour but no model listed.

http://www.ilambretta.com/colours/colours.pdf

I ride an original British Jet 200 1974 model in yellow ochre. 90% of the paintwork is original factory finish. this paint is not like the yellow ochre of the GP/DL. its similar but looks like someone added some black. its like a dirty ochre. added to this when i parked it next to a slightly later Jet they were different colours. theres no difinitive answer. the Spanish were a poorly paid workforce with no real interest in the latest colours. the paint was probably a Seat?fiat clour mixed by monkeys at the local zoo. the quality control was done by the local village idiot. i had my paint analysed to repaint the headset top and mudguard and even the paint expert had to keep adding bits of other colours to get the finish right by eye. weirdly my green tanks are an exact match to innocenti "verde mele" apple green of the SX150's. another fiat colour from the 60's/70's. if the Seat/Fiat factory in Spain was using the latest in colours then i guess thats where the paint colours came from.fashion innit.

there was an old post on this on lcgb
i think plasticman or dobbie or sommat did a check on his early 70s jet and best match he could get was lada 208

from this i repainted my 73 jet lada 208 and it does actually look as near as

couldnt get a definitive answer so suppose different batches of scoots varied slightly

ive handled original paint parts from uk and spain and they dont match exactly - but suppose 35 years of spanish sun opposed to 35 years of british weather may have given different patinas

the spanish paint does often seem very "frugal" in the thickness / coat