Dart 400 colour etc
Posted: 23 Oct 2016 14:39
Hi,
I have just joined this forum and now I'm writing the first time on it. The reason for it is naturally a Morini project. I have bought couple of months ago a Dart 400, which looks horrible and I am aiming to return it to the condition, what it was when it was new. I have just started to tear it on parts and the first thing what I am going to is to paint the frame. The concern now is the colour - the colour of the frame is gold and it seems to be original paint (there is no other layers under the gold paint except the primer, which is not silver neither. Has there been gold colour on frames? Will I do a mistake, If I paint it to silver? The bike it self is red. Is it a original colour or is it repainted? I can find only couple of photos of red Darts. If it is originally red, what it should look like? The Dart has been registered in Germany in 1992. The frame number is 10020, if I remember correctly and it says also Dart 400/390 on the frame number plate.
If somebody have owners manual or some other documents of this bike, I'm interested to buy them.
I have just joined this forum and now I'm writing the first time on it. The reason for it is naturally a Morini project. I have bought couple of months ago a Dart 400, which looks horrible and I am aiming to return it to the condition, what it was when it was new. I have just started to tear it on parts and the first thing what I am going to is to paint the frame. The concern now is the colour - the colour of the frame is gold and it seems to be original paint (there is no other layers under the gold paint except the primer, which is not silver neither. Has there been gold colour on frames? Will I do a mistake, If I paint it to silver? The bike it self is red. Is it a original colour or is it repainted? I can find only couple of photos of red Darts. If it is originally red, what it should look like? The Dart has been registered in Germany in 1992. The frame number is 10020, if I remember correctly and it says also Dart 400/390 on the frame number plate.
If somebody have owners manual or some other documents of this bike, I'm interested to buy them.