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Title: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Bpreynolds2 on February 01, 2022, 06:25:22 AM
Surprising to find me posting this as over the years I’ve rather preferred stock paint and such but recently - with a Cali Stone project - I’m finding myself googling a lot of different custom painted Guzzis.  And then too I recall some nicely owner painted Guzzis from the board here in the past like Kev’s white Jackal and others.  I went initially with a color I thought I’d like on the tank but then scrapped later, taking the tank back to metal.  We’ll see.  But for now, throw us up a pic of your painted Guzzi.  Might give me some ideas.   :thumb:
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Scout63 on February 01, 2022, 06:38:36 AM
I searched high and low for a good color for my G5.  Ultimately I went with the stock black and white.  Now I have another set of bodywork and will probably paint them white with black. No cojones at all. Good luck with the hunt.


(https://i.ibb.co/nBrVfmP/0808-AA68-DFDC-4-B55-811-F-87-AAD56-A4918.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nBrVfmP)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: dave1068 on February 01, 2022, 07:27:27 AM
Had my golden/tan V85 TT painted surf blue...

(https://i.ibb.co/NFC3qDL/blue1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/NFC3qDL)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: BrotherJim on February 01, 2022, 07:34:57 AM
I’ve posted a pic of mine on a recent thread of yours.  I went with WWII OD because I had it laying around.  My ‘02 CalStone was the Sunset Orange color, which I thought was weird, but I mainly painted the bike because the paint was in such bad shape… like someone had kept it outside the entire time.  I was as careful as I could be with the prep, and rattle-canned it OD with a two-part matte clear.  I’m very pleased with the way it turned-out, and I can’t go anywhere without randos asking me about it.  Hoping to make my way down to the Lulvull area in late may for a Bourbon Trail ride with some of my new Ton-Up Club brothers down there.

(https://i.ibb.co/DKwNPVr/84845-D8-F-0-E08-481-B-B23-F-16-E70-AE1-E641.jpg) (https://ibb.co/DKwNPVr)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Gliderjohn on February 01, 2022, 08:13:57 AM
My T-3 was in police paint when I bought it.

(https://i.ibb.co/2vqhZDc/DSCN0485-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/2vqhZDc)

GliderJohn
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: RinkRat II on February 01, 2022, 08:54:13 AM

     A few years ago I found a NOS Guzzi fairing in Champagne, so I bought side covers and a seat cowl off fleabay and painted them to match the fairing. Also modified a Norge chin fairing to match the porkchops and frame. It can all go back to stock Black in about ten minutes.
(https://i.ibb.co/1vwY0C8/100-7178.jpg) (https://ibb.co/1vwY0C8)


     Paul B  :boozing:
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Guzzistajohn on February 01, 2022, 09:14:32 AM

(https://i.ibb.co/r65WmSd/CX100-2021.jpg) (https://ibb.co/r65WmSd)
Had to be red/black, with red frame. It's the fastest color  :boozing:
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Texas Turnip on February 01, 2022, 11:06:06 AM
Does someone have a pic of the Jesus bike owned by Greg Heinritz. At one time this was the most photographed Guzzi in the world.
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: guzzista on February 01, 2022, 11:34:30 AM
 here is a Tonti tank done up with V7  Sport decals. Badge areas welded up and  leveled.
(https://i.ibb.co/8jw5qnW/IMG-0323.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8jw5qnW)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Guzzistajohn on February 01, 2022, 11:40:44 AM
Does someone have a pic of the Jesus bike owned by Greg Heinritz. At one time this was the most photographed Guzzi in the world.

In my mind, yes Ken  :thumb: It was quite the spectacle!
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: fotoguzzi on February 01, 2022, 12:10:44 PM
Does someone have a pic of the Jesus bike owned by Greg Heinritz. At one time this was the most photographed Guzzi in the world.
is it this one?

(https://photos.smugmug.com/All/i-SdqcZms/0/bfa0c6d0/L/DSCN2156-L.jpg) (https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/All/i-SdqcZms/A)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Klinkhammer on February 01, 2022, 12:19:53 PM
I searched high and low for a good color for my G5.  Ultimately I went with the stock black and white.  Now I have another set of bodywork and will probably paint them white with black. No cojones at all. Good luck with the hunt.


(https://i.ibb.co/nBrVfmP/0808-AA68-DFDC-4-B55-811-F-87-AAD56-A4918.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nBrVfmP)


Good choice! White looks really good on a T3. Stein Dinse has the black stripes.
This is my California (now sold).


(https://i.ibb.co/2dCFZRB/IMG-1205.jpg) (https://ibb.co/2dCFZRB)



(https://i.ibb.co/qM82JnY/IMG-1218.jpg) (https://ibb.co/qM82JnY)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: garbln on February 01, 2022, 12:24:23 PM

(https://i.ibb.co/swpB3TR/SAM-0148.jpg) (https://ibb.co/swpB3TR)


I just liked the colors, not stock but liked them anyway!
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: blackcat on February 01, 2022, 12:53:57 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/M2H1ttZ/3729-ED13-2-A4-C-4-AB9-9072-CA844-D8-B168-F.jpg)

I went with a silver frame and that was from one of Mick Walker's books that had a photo of V7 Sport with a silver frame and red tank/side panels.  Steve Ford from Parts is Parts powder coated the frame and it was his first attempt at powder coating, that was sometime back in the 1990's and it needs to be re-shot as it's showing it's age. 
Obviously the other colors are stock from past and future Guzzi's.
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Guzzistajohn on February 01, 2022, 12:56:16 PM
is it this one?

(https://photos.smugmug.com/All/i-SdqcZms/0/bfa0c6d0/L/DSCN2156-L.jpg) (https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/All/i-SdqcZms/A)

Nope, it was blue  :thumb:
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: ray bear on February 01, 2022, 03:27:26 PM
it looked better than Convert silver


(https://i.ibb.co/7jDnqPK/IMG-1219-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7jDnqPK)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: yackee on February 01, 2022, 06:47:13 PM
I searched high and low for a good color for my G5.  Ultimately I went with the stock black and white.  Now I have another set of bodywork and will probably paint them white with black. No cojones at all. Good luck with the hunt.


(https://i.ibb.co/nBrVfmP/0808-AA68-DFDC-4-B55-811-F-87-AAD56-A4918.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nBrVfmP)


It's hard to argue with the classic stripes. I did the same with my T3, except that I had the painter do the stripes in silver leaf.
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: spaghetti on February 01, 2022, 07:32:00 PM
Remember, you asked for this.

My first Guzzi was a very used 1996 1100i California that was that dark green and white but it was very dull & faded despite only being 6 years old. I had always liked the idea of being able to fix a paint job by just putting clearcoat over wet sanded passable paint. What I did end up doing was tape off the white and put a strange copper color over the dark green. The copper and white did not work real well together but it was different.


(https://i.ibb.co/SVyZFkF/243636-R1-13.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SVyZFkF)


It took less than a year to get sick of the copper/white scheme, so my next idea was to give a light wet sanding to the paint job and cover it with some left over candy apple red which allowed the different shades of the copper and white to be seen through the red and fresh clearcoat. This really was a stunning paint job. It had a lot of depth to it, you could look down deep into the colors.


(https://i.ibb.co/PM4t694/DCP-1584.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PM4t694)


Because this bike was cheap enough and I had the time, I stripped off the red down to the steel about a year later. I had become smitten by the weird color on the 2000 V-11 sport with the red frame, so in a slightly failed homage to the V11 I tried to have a custom green mixed up to match that color. I failed. The color came out a bit too green but, I liked it even if nobody else did. I later did away with the red valve covers and accents. I sandblasted the flames onto the windshield to hide some scratches from a tip over accident.


(https://i.ibb.co/7gkbv83/DSCN0180.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7gkbv83)



(https://i.ibb.co/kq1dWHb/DSCN0309.jpg) (https://ibb.co/kq1dWHb)


My 2000 RT I made bright yellow because I could not stand the ice green metallic it was when I got it. This had to be the safest color any bike has ever been painted. Nobody could say they didn't see it coming. I was quite happy with this 12 hour paint job. From the time I took the first screw out of the bodywork, wet sand, yellow basecoat, clearcoat to cleaning out the paint gun was 12 hours. Despite the short time laying down the paint it stuck quite well and had a shinier finish than the stock BMW waterborne paint.


(https://i.ibb.co/Zc8bz94/DSCN0311.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Zc8bz94)


Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Jack Straw on February 02, 2022, 08:30:12 AM
OK, here's my V7III Stone.  I never really liked all the flat black and dark gray so I started rattling' those cans.
(https://i.imgur.com/z20mG66.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: moto-uno on February 03, 2022, 01:09:27 PM

(https://i.ibb.co/09nWH3M/2479.jpg) (https://ibb.co/09nWH3M)


Everybody knows Yellow and Silver are the best Guzzi colours  :evil:   Peter
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Turin on February 03, 2022, 10:21:54 PM

(https://i.ibb.co/tsC49XW/850-T-10.jpg) (https://ibb.co/tsC49XW)


(https://i.ibb.co/9HwPjss/ambo.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9HwPjss)


(https://i.ibb.co/MVzsfFC/SE-recent-3.jpg) (https://ibb.co/MVzsfFC)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: mauriceetjeannine on February 04, 2022, 01:12:13 AM
my first Guzzi California III carb 1987

(https://i.ibb.co/26Mkt1T/califIII.jpg) (https://ibb.co/26Mkt1T)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: Bpreynolds2 on February 04, 2022, 07:30:58 AM
Really like all these.  Keep’em coming. 
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: pressureangle on February 04, 2022, 08:15:33 AM

(https://i.ibb.co/RDLNcn9/Mw8-T0-Rp-Wi0-FOPInkuir-Dxg9o1-Eehznfv6-Wm-D7y-Ffy-Zt-Q5-FDP0-PXqdah-Tkl-ESzoubd-UF7b-FNXi4xqs-P74-P.jpg) (https://ibb.co/RDLNcn9)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: steven c on February 04, 2022, 08:28:44 AM
My T back in 80.
(https://i.ibb.co/vY7wntZ/Guzzi-T.jpg) (https://ibb.co/vY7wntZ)
Title: Re: Show us your painted Guzzi
Post by: spmoto on February 04, 2022, 09:28:05 AM
My '83 SPNT after it was put back together with a smattering of different bodywork mostly sourced from Eric Phillipe and Bob Steinbugler when the owned a shop in Raliegh NC. The SP had been tipped over and then moved by forklift on the Navy pier in Norfolk VA when my ship was suddenly deployed. Fairing, tank etc were destroyed. In this picture it is wearing a LM3 fairing, CX 100 tank and, if I remember right, the seat section and chin fairing are Stucci. Loved that bike!


(https://i.ibb.co/vJ6t2Fs/83-SP-2.png) (https://ibb.co/vJ6t2Fs)