{"id":18742,"date":"2017-09-08T07:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=18742"},"modified":"2017-09-08T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:52:08","slug":"z1-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2017\/09\/z1-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Z1 paint"},"content":{"rendered":"

After doing an “old guy” inspired clean up of my z1, where I tried to get shit as cosmetically dialed as I was able. I decided to have my tank\/tail repainted.<\/p>\n

As I said before, my z1 is a 74, but whomever had it before me had a 75 tank\/tail on it.<\/p>\n

They look pretty similar, however, some of the differences:<\/p>\n

– 75 tank, top 2 stripes have black paint in between them and where the 2 stripes meet the seat, the stripes have a gap. Green paint tealish hue. 75 tail, decals curve up at end <\/p>\n

– 74 tank, no black between 2 stripes and the stripes touch where meets seat. Green paint is yellowish hue. 74 tail decals are straight<\/p>\n

5 doors down from my house is an auto body shop called Liberty Collision. I stopped in and asked if they’d be into doing my paint. Owner Ben is a cool dude. He said normally prob not but being a neighbor he’s into it. <\/p>\n

They did a great job. Base paint \/ clear \/ apply z1parts decal kit. Charged me $450. He alluded that it was more work than they anticipated. I was more worried about decal placement than paint. They got it pretty damn close. Im happy. Also, matching paint color was tough. I wanted it close to stock but a shade darker. <\/p>\n

First pic is an original 74 I based my color off that I saw at mid Ohio.<\/p>\n

At bottom you can see the body shop stuff and the million swatches I could choose from.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After doing an “old guy” inspired clean up of my z1, where I tried to get shit as cosmetically dialed as I was able. I decided to have my tank\/tail repainted. As I said before, my z1 is a 74, but whomever had it before me had a 75 tank\/tail on it. They look pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18744,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18742\/revisions\/18744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}