I've just bought a tl and going to refinish her, powder coat frame is no issue but does anyone know the paint codes for the bright silver and shiney orange for my paintshop?

Cheers

If nobody comes up with the codes, here is a link to where you can buy the paint:-

http://www.rsbikepaint.com/en-gb/colours.php#makeid=59&modelid=811&prodyear=1975

Cheers for that Esteve, just spoke with a friend who has 5 of these TL's (!) and he told me that Mercedes Silver is a very good match and that old 70's Honda Civic orange equal the orange of all things....having a proper paint code is far more usual!

.....budgeted on around £150 to do her up but the wallet is suffering a little more as is the nature of these things what with new frame decals, stainless nuts and bolts etc, having a blast company and power coat firm on my industrial estate will help keep things sensible though.

she is 36 years young but I managed to strip in her down around 3 hours with not a single nut of bolt seized, maybe because she has never been used off road. It appears she has just been used for commuting of all things by her one owner up to last year and is running 15/52 gearing....possibly the most overgeared TL125 in captivity!

I left her out the front of my car sales and it seems a lot of people are rather fond of these old girls judging by the amount of attention?

My old TL used to attract the same sort of attention too.

Edited April 6, 201214 yr by BigMike1961

To confirm we did colour checks today via du pont automotive, silver matches 1990 onwards merc silver and use Honda taihitian red for the orange, hope this helps someone

thanks for the silver advice. does anyone have a good recommendation for the blue TL's from the US? i thought i'd do mine in that colour for a change.

The US TL125 K1 (1974) is Candy Sapphire Blue, according to this US website the color code is 375-01.

http://www.ct70paint.com/sapphire-blue.html

many thanks!