Best/Cheapest Source for Cooley Graphics ??

[Kiwi Canuck]

Much appreciated, but I already ordered some from this guy for 73 pounds or $126 American dollars

http://www.andybikeservices.co.uk/

Nice, tell me you are doing red and white.

[Vmass]

Nice, tell me you are doing red and white.

Oh, man!!!! That is really tempting..........Maybe doing a red one will entice Larry t o set up shop.

[chuck hahn]

This one will be the US Blue and White...sorry. under the ugly green spray paint stuff there is actually the original blue paint on the frt fender and the under side is also solid blue, so it was blue originally.

[nvr2old]

Oh, man!!!! That is really tempting..........Maybe doing a red one will entice Larry t o set up shop.

You have no idea how close I came to painting my own S red. I want to do one really bad some day. Was that a Euro/Australia only paint scheme..? Would serial numbers reflect that..? I ask because it would be so cool to do a red one but only if it doesn't completely trash the authenticity of a blue one.

[Kiwi Canuck]

You have no idea how close I came to painting my own S red. I want to do one really bad some day. Was that a Euro/Australia only paint scheme..? Would serial numbers reflect that..? I ask because it would be so cool to do a red one but only if it doesn't completely trash the authenticity of a blue one.

Larry, the Red & White one shown in the pictures above has the same paint scheme as the Blue and White, there is also the inverted paint scheme seen in Australia and maybe some countries in Europe which comes in both red/white or blue white.
I prefer the traditional scheme personally, just because that's what I'm most familiar with.
I'm not sure if they brought the Red & White to N. America, and not sure if the Red & White schemes were limited to a certain range of VIN's but I would guess they just ran them as a normal production run along with the Blue & White bikes.

If some-one is doing a "perfect correct restoration" then yes stay original colour, but it's definitely factory and period correct.

Here's my 1979S with the Red & White paint job, the bike came B&W but I had an off and decided on the new colours and it looked great.



PS. I saw a nice Red & White one for sale on ebay UK last month and the front fender was painted backwards, with the rounded part of the decal at the front, as if they had bolted it in backwards, but the speedo grommet was in the correct place, it looked all wrong.

[Kiwi Canuck]

Nice, tell me you are doing red and white.

Just noticed the stripes around the top of tank by the filler look a bit square, is this my eye or maybe that's how these ones are done.

[Nessism]

Just noticed the stripes around the top of tank by the filler look a bit square, is this my eye or maybe that's how these ones are done.

Noticed this too. Might just be the photo, but it should be rounded.