what year did harley go to urethane paints ? and what's their old candy like ?

[bmh]

Don't think I've ever seen an original paint sparkling gold bike. Or sparkling copper for that matter. But the blue and red and green all appear to be candies. I know the blue is for sure. Gotta be some stone chips on your gold bike, what do you see?

[rigidude]

Hmm, I have an original paint sparkling gold bike, and I do not think the color is sprayed over silver, just the normal red-brown oxide primer.

Fortunately, you probably can't tell. But unfortunately for me, my sparkling gold tank is so pock marked and beyond saving the finish that I can see definitely, very thin trace of silver below the gold in some spots.
It's weird...where I can chip off flakes of gold, I see the red primer on the tank base but no silver under alot of the gold flakes. Well, it is 42 yr old paint!

I'm guessing that the "sparkling" paints were "mimic" type candies - metallics sprayed lightly over silver base...maybe like the HOK shimrin pearls I've seen people use for that effect.

And I guess (again heheh) that "true" candy is exactly a translucent tinted clear over whatever base you choose...as opposed to calling them candy simply because somebody went thru the sames steps involved..bleh, wtf knows........here's my 68 turdle -

[comptime]

I am trying to find info on 1976 black sequin silver liberty edition paint is this lacquer or enamel? HOW IS IT SPRAYED ON?where can I find some or is there someone who can spray my tanks for me? I have very little experince painting.

[dealinwhls]

it was called, by harley, aluminum undercoat for the hi-fi colors. i would not call it siver.