Showing posts with label Honda 400/4 Moto Guzzi S3 750. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Honda 400/4 Moto Guzzi S3 750. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Standard paintjobs

Looking for a Guzzi S3 reminded me that we painted my brother's 400/4 that way back in the seventies: there it is tucked behind my recently acquired F2, which would finish up fully Yoshimured (below); back then keeping a bike standard just showed a lack of imagination, even though the paint job's were via cans and kitchen tables. These days "original" (ideally shinier than original) is all collectors dream of. Nostalgia originally was a word for a type of sickness. Odd, that...