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@reisberg
Here is the mail i received from Gazelle ( a big thanxs to the always very helpful Monique Bollen) where i asked about the color range they offered back in the early and mid seventies:
"About your Pista frame from 1974, in our hand build race collection it was always possible to choose your colour, at that time it was blue, light blue, red, white, green, silver-grey, purple, gold bronze, orange and brown.
Colour codes however aren’t available, we use our own colour codes, not RAL codes, and these numbers aren’t in our collection any more. What you can do is visit a paint shop with your frameset and ask if they can trace the right colour code.
This is what we advice here also when someone wants to restore a nice Champion Mondial frameset. The white colour on your frame was called ivory white. We now use that name again, but the colour is different, because the paint now is based on water, totally different from the seventies, eighties and nineties."
Regards
Reisberg