:laughing: Hilarious! I hope they don't do that anymore with the new ones.Hi Johan.
No, not that i have ever come across. Every red seems to be different and the original paint fades to a lovely dark colour on the old 1950's bikes.
In the 1970's the UK Importer used to take all the body work off there new bikes and lay it on the floor. They would then try and match up sets that were all a similar red! Some parts were nearly orange, whilst others were various shade of red....and this was on new bikes from the factory!
All the best.
Dorian.
Thanks Russ!I came across an Italian company, Lechler, with a list of paint codes for historical motorcycles.
http://www.lechler.eu/on-line/en/Home/Refinish/HystoricalVehicles.html and scroll down to 'motorcycle colour range'. page 33 has the MVs