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woody wrote:http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd4 ... lly056.jpg

Can anybody help me please , i,m trying to find out the original paint code of my gp150 i bought new in 1984 , none of the original paint survived its years of various paint jobs but now after several years of sleep in the loft i wish to put it back to standard , and nobody knows what the genuine colour should be , so if you look closely at the top left hand corner of this picture taken at whitby there is the front of a light green gp ,well thats the colour it originally was , does anybody know the ral code or even the owner of this scoot ? thanks for lookin

Looking at his chart -

http://www.e-paint.co.uk/RAL_Colourchart.asp

6019 looks quite close

This sounds suspiciously like an enquiry Alcoholic Maniac (?) was making over on the LCGB. Is it connected? If you get yourself over to Scooter Restorations and look up their PDF files of SIL marketing brochures from the time, and in particular the DL150, you'll find the colours they used listed in the brochure. From memory they list a Sage Green BS219. it sounds like the most likely candidate. It's difficult to tell from the picture, but it's in bright sun and probably looks lighter than it actually was.

http://www.e-paint.co.uk/search_colour. ... y=BS%20219

hey Woody, if you cut and paste my words again i'll throww the copyright book at you, you could at least have waited till i died!!!! could it be that your memory of the green has been affected by age?? i mean like you im sure it was lighter than the Indian home market colour but could we both be wrong??.

Doom Patrol wrote:This sounds suspiciously like an enquiry Alcoholic Maniac (?) was making over on the LCGB. Is it connected? If you get yourself over to Scooter Restorations and look up their PDF files of SIL marketing brochures from the time, and in particular the DL150, you'll find the colours they used listed in the brochure. From memory they list a Sage Green BS219. it sounds like the most likely candidate. It's difficult to tell from the picture, but it's in bright sun and probably looks lighter than it actually was.

http://www.e-paint.co.uk/search_colour. ... y=BS%20219

yes same thread mate but i can,t post on lcgb as i,m not a " member " and he is , also i,ve seen the sage green bs219 and thats way to dark , rosscla is much nearer the mark with ral 6019 but i,d still like to know the proper colour to get it 100% right , as for going to scooter restorations i,ve thought about that but they don,t open weekends ? so can,t go as i live too far away

alcoholic maniacs sc wrote:hey Woody, if you cut and paste my words again i'll throww the copyright book at you, you could at least have waited till i died!!!! could it be that your memory of the green has been affected by age?? i mean like you im sure it was lighter than the Indian home market colour but could we both be wrong??.

No mate i,m never wrong and i thought you had died ! i,ve found an old poor quality photo of my gp in its original colour and i am right alziemers ain,t got me quite yet , but i can,t get this fookin scanner to work ! oh yeh an what you on about cut an paste ? i,m on a computer not doing the fookin decorating !

I didn't mean literally go to Scooter Restorations.

http://www.scooterrestorations.com/lambretta/info/

Looking at your photo it's more peppermint colour though. I'm baffled.

dont know if he's a member on here but Roy Mason in Rotherham bought one of the same batch, somewhere in my loft are a few of Alisons photos of it and it was a lighter green in those than the SIL brochure, i suppose the worst case scenario is they were a batch imported in a monday morning colour that cheif paint engineer Patel rustled up in his rice break. they were on sale with a choice of a sky blue at the same time and if i remember right were about £799.00 on the road??

alcoholic maniacs sc wrote:dont know if he's a member on here but Roy Mason in Rotherham bought one of the same batch, somewhere in my loft are a few of Alisons photos of it and it was a lighter green in those than the SIL brochure, i suppose the worst case scenario is they were a batch imported in a monday morning colour that cheif paint engineer Patel rustled up in his rice break. they were on sale with a choice of a sky blue at the same time and if i remember right were about £799.00 on the road??

Or the paint that they arrived in the UK with was so bad that the importers resprayed them