Standard lookalike vs custom paint

[squaredoffagain]

I have a very tatty VFR400RN Type 8, which might once have looked (exactly) like the paintjob shown in this pic:


Except my wheels are red - which I don't really like. The tank is dented and horribly hand-painted - which I really don't like. Pretty much every plastic panel is busted, though maybe just about salvageable with 100 hours of plastic welding, gluing, filling, sanding, etc.

I've wanted an NC30 for years and I'm getting impatient to ride it, so a Chinese fairing will be going on, but which one? I'm never expecting it to look genuine and I haven't found the fairing pattern it originally had, so why not go with something a bit less firmly rooted in 1991? These are my choices:

EITHER:

Try to get something like this one (sorry, I don't know who's it is or where I found it - probably somewhere on here):


Plain gloss black fairings with Dzus fasteners, leaving final wheel colour TBD? Maybe the red wheels would look better against black; maybe I'd have to refinish them later. Anyway, even if the finish on the Chinese fairings is generally fairly crappy, I'd hope plain colours would look OK, or at least be easy to bring up to standard with an extra coat of paint/lacquer/both. This is a complete guess though.

OR:

Find a nice tank from a paint scheme that came with red wheels then order the pattern fairing to match that; which should end up looking more like a standard bike which might be more "tasteful"? I wouldn't ever claim it was original, but maybe the period graphics are what best suits the period lines?

I'm handy enough to do a rebuild and I think tidying it up is worth spending a bit on; I just want to end up with a tidy looking bike without wasting too much.

Does anyone have any advice to offer?

[Drunkn Munky]

Original colour schemes will always be worth more and sell better but then if its on chinese panels then its not gunna matter what you do to them.

I'll soon be selling a complete original type 5 panel set if your interested, everything but the tank and your red wheels will match it too :)

[squaredoffagain]

This one?


If you're selling them in the next month or so, please PM me or point me at the auction if you're ebaying them.

[Drunkn Munky]

Thats the one although mine doesnt have the red numberboard on the seat unit, couple of scuffs here and there but nothing major and some broken lugs but it all holds together well allbit with a cable tie here and there.

It wont be for atleast a month so i'll let ya know when i take them off.

[squaredoffagain]

Apologies Drunkn Munky, I'm not going to be interested in your fairings after receiving word from the better half that I am to take my lead from tlnut's build shown on the "Fairings from China/Hong Kong" thread. I'm sure they'll sell on pretty quickly anyway.

Funny how she won't express an opinion before I've had one from the Internet.

[Drunkn Munky]

Not a problem mate good luck with it

[super-red-jim]

Dave, I presume your type 5 panel set is long gone now?

[Drunkn Munky]

Dave LOL

Yes sorry there long gone, ended up selling the bike with them on.

Tony

[porndoguk]

Dave LOL

Yes sorry there long gone, ended up selling the bike with them on.

Tony

"Ello Dave"