To re-spray or not to re-spray, that is the question

i bought a 70's claud butler off a chap on here, the single speed conversion part is going fine. component wise things are shaping up nicely. the paints rusted in places so ive removed the rust but the colour is kind of unique so my concern is i wont be able to find a close match, so should i respray the entire thing? its a claud butler olympic.

any advice appreciated

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i quite like the decals, and definitely keeping the badge

DON'T RESPRAY! It's nice like that. You will never get the decals look the same way again if you do.

Yeah, he's right! Looks great as it is.

Touch up as best you can, get some humbrol metallic modelling paints, just try mixing up some different shades to get a close-ish match: get the nearest blue as a base, and some silver, or lilac, or green, whichever you think will take it into the right direction and experiment with adding dabs to a bit of the blue.

Don't forget to fit some decent mudguards to that bike.

mudguards? pffft! no chance. thanks for the advice. i dont want to be one of those ss people who fluro paint and aero spoke there bike. as its a bike not a space ship