79 LTD Paint Color

Ok great! Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for that or send me a message if you remember please. In the meantime I may even send Kalvin my tank crotch piece to try n find a better match. Fingers crossed for both of us! 🤞
I'll definitely update the thread. I know I'm not the only one out there with this particular bike and surely at some point somebody else will be looking for this same info.
I bought this bike specifically because it was the 10th Anniversary model. Had one back in my younger days and always loved it. I was sick when I crunched the tank, and frankly I don't care what I have to spend to match the paint. If I have to, I'll take it to somebody who can do a custom match, but if I can find the right colors I can borrow my buddy's shop and do it myself. Already have the correct stripe kit in my possession.
 
I'll definitely update the thread. I know I'm not the only one out there with this particular bike and surely at some point somebody else will be looking for this same info.
I bought this bike specifically because it was the 10th Anniversary model. Had one back in my younger days and always loved it. I was sick when I crunched the tank, and frankly I don't care what I have to spend to match the paint. If I have to, I'll take it to somebody who can do a custom match, but if I can find the right colors I can borrow my buddy's shop and do it myself. Already have the correct stripe kit in my possession.
That 10th anniversary model is super sweet. I love them! Seems like were somewhat in the same boat. I know how you feel. It's a sick feeling. When I started the rebuild on my 76 gl1000 LTD that I inherited from my dad (rip 🙏) the first thing I did was pull the engine. Had it on a motorcycle jack, un strapped, and carefully pulled it away from the frame. It needed one last tug to get over the uneven crack in the concrete floor and of course the engine tipped over, fell off and cracked open the custom chromed valve cover like an egg... and they only made ~2000 of the valve covers!!! I made a leak proof eye sore of a repair and did find another valve cover with the right batch stamp and numbers on it but I still cringe when I see it. Lol. I'm determined to find the right paint too. Fingers crossed for both of us!
 

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Old crow, I've seen people push out dents with an innertube. Yours (which hurts my heart) does have a crease, though. I would still try pushing that out. Might be able to have a backup tank, despite needing a bit of body putty.
 
Old crow, I've seen people push out dents with an innertube. Yours (which hurts my heart) does have a crease, though. I would still try pushing that out. Might be able to have a backup tank, despite needing a bit of body putty.
Back when I had not only a hot rod and restoration shop but my own personal shop at home I might have messed with it. Now-a-days I live and travel in a motorhome I don't really have a place to work on it. Even if I got it half-way straightened out, it would still need paint. The tank I got off eBay is almost perfect (aside from the color) and I've been riding the bike all summer with no problems. Even still get nice comments from passersby on occasion despite the mis-matched paint.
 
Back when I had not only a hot rod and restoration shop but my own personal shop at home I might have messed with it. Now-a-days I live and travel in a motorhome I don't really have a place to work on it. Even if I got it half-way straightened out, it would still need paint. The tank I got off eBay is almost perfect (aside from the color) and I've been riding the bike all summer with no problems. Even still get nice comments from passersby on occasion despite the mis-matched paint.
Try RSbikepaint in the UK . 750 L corpora are candy muse red and Bayard brown. Hint to find the Bayard brown use the 1979 750 K to find the Bayard brown. I have used the regime paint before it is wonderful. They will ship to the U.S.
 
I've found both the Candy Muse Red and Bayard Brown at VMR paints in the US. They don't have any color charts to confirm. All the factory documentation and a magazine article from '79 introducing the Anniversary edition claim that the colors are Candy Muse Red/Red.
The guy at VMR says that he'll send me a small quantity of both so I can make a couple of spray-outs, but I've been dealing with some medical crap and haven't gotten to it yet.
Personally, I hope you and the OP of this thread are right, because I really want the bike back to the way it looked before last spring. Another hare-brained scheme I had was to paint it with the same 2-tone pattern using the stock pinstripe decals which I already have but use a real dark Sapphire Blue and a Pearl White instead of the two reds. I saw an HD bagger at a dealer one time with that paint combo and it was probably the nicest looking HD I ever saw. At least I thought so.
 
I have used vmr paints with great success. Also have used RSbikepaint UK as well for a cb750 k2 candy gold custom which vmr could not provide. Either way you can't go wrong. If I had a say in the matter go with the factory colors. Candy muse red and Bayard brown.
 
I have used vmr paints with great success. Also have used RSbikepaint UK as well for a cb750 k2 candy gold custom which vmr could not provide. Either way you can't go wrong. If I had a say in the matter go with the factory colors. Candy muse red and Bayard brown.
I actually searched specifically for the Anniversary model when I made the decision to buy another bike, so the stock colors are my preference. I had one back in the 90's, before I went to the dark side for like 30 years.
The blue and white scheme is just some pipe dream (so to speak) that I came up with one night.
 
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