Serotta Color?
09-18-12, 01:02 PM
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Serotta Color?
I am looking at an older Serotta frameset and have a question about color. Presently it is a blue but wonder if other colors were offered? How would I find ut? Also how can I match the color? The auto paint supplier needs a flat piece the size of a business card for matching and that does not exsit on a bike frame!
Any thought?
Thanks!
Any thought?
Thanks!
09-18-12, 01:06 PM
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thepaceline.net has a bunch of catalogs. You can check there if you want to go original. Note that they no longer will sell replacement decals though.
https://forums.thepaceline.net/forumdisplay.php?f=18
https://forums.thepaceline.net/forumdisplay.php?f=18
09-18-12, 01:12 PM
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been there done that.
(clipped from another post)
I wanted my bike PUCH "Profigrun"
in the post came a small 30 year old dried up touchup container,
forum member"Chrome" from https://www.bikeboard.at sent me his little touchup bottle of the original color, with this I will get a correct paint color.
Armed with the touch up can I visited "Spies Hecker" Finland Distributor and they let me thumb through the color tiles - I viewed over 10,000 colors in 2 hours and got a hit very close to correct,
it was a VW color,
the distributor looked at the 2 and said with a bit of yellow it will be almost perfect.
they printed me the color code and I went to my painter.(who mixes the Spies Heckler color himself from the book) I mentioned to him what the distributor said.
He painted it one evening and played with the color and got it very very close.
he did a fantastic job and the paint job cost me 200.
you can view the bike and build here
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...mistral+ultima
here is the original touchup stick- I remember having these on my schwinn in the 70's
original paint was a candy translucent,with a silver base.
the new paint is a mettalic with a clear over it- a very close match and really smooth.
you can see how translucent the paint is on the test panel
(clipped from another post)
I wanted my bike PUCH "Profigrun"
in the post came a small 30 year old dried up touchup container,
forum member"Chrome" from https://www.bikeboard.at sent me his little touchup bottle of the original color, with this I will get a correct paint color.
Armed with the touch up can I visited "Spies Hecker" Finland Distributor and they let me thumb through the color tiles - I viewed over 10,000 colors in 2 hours and got a hit very close to correct,
it was a VW color,
the distributor looked at the 2 and said with a bit of yellow it will be almost perfect.
they printed me the color code and I went to my painter.(who mixes the Spies Heckler color himself from the book) I mentioned to him what the distributor said.
He painted it one evening and played with the color and got it very very close.
he did a fantastic job and the paint job cost me 200.
you can view the bike and build here
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...mistral+ultima
here is the original touchup stick- I remember having these on my schwinn in the 70's
original paint was a candy translucent,with a silver base.
the new paint is a mettalic with a clear over it- a very close match and really smooth.
you can see how translucent the paint is on the test panel
Last edited by puchfinnland; 09-18-12 at 01:22 PM.
09-18-12, 06:33 PM
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Serottas came in all kinds of colors. A very popular one (at least in the 80s) was a mini-metallic claret red. I've seen a lot of those.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1317574...7625715601457/
A forum member (cuda2K?) has repainted his using an automotive (Mazda? Matador Red) color that's a fair match.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1317574...7625715601457/
A forum member (cuda2K?) has repainted his using an automotive (Mazda? Matador Red) color that's a fair match.
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