Yamaha Paint Formulas. The 60 million dollar question. Why? No idea. These are a closely guarded secret. We have the code. Meaningless without the key.
Best you can do is take a clean sample to a painter with the ‘touch’ or hope he has a great spectrometer. Even then you’re not going to get the layering correct.
Found these some time ago. Not the answer. Just a piece of the puzzle.
1970 Colour Chart
283-2 Paint codes from 71 service bulletins
colour chart 73 – 1
colour chart 73 – 2
colour chart 74 – 1
colour chart 74 – 2
paint general … from 1979 Accessories Catalog
paint 1975
paint 1976
paint 1977
paint 1978
paint 1979
Unfortunately I don’t have any more.
For later models Color-rite claim to have the inside running. Only list from 1986 though.
XS650 paint codes…not recipes
| BFB | 00J3 | Bountiful Blue |
| BG | 00H9 | Black Gold |
| BLR | 002J | Black Red |
| BR | 0063 | Brilliant Red |
| BRw | 0063-/-0046 | Brilliant Red/White |
| BRb | 0063-/-0033 | Brilliant Red/Black |
| CBL | 002E | Cobalt Blue |
| CBW | 00N1 | Cinnamon Brown |
| CDR | 004H | Cardinal Red |
| CG | 0064 | Candy Green |
| CMR | 00E9 | Carmine Red |
| CO | 0052 | Candy Orange |
| CSL | 0020 | Crystal Silver |
| FBL | 00G3 | French Blue |
| FRS | 009G | Frost Silver |
| LGM | 008J | Legato Maroon |
| MFB | 00F5 | Metallic Flake Blue |
| MA | 00W2 | Macho Maroon |
| MM | 00U8 | Maxi Maroon |
| NMB | 00J9 | New Midnight Blue |
| NYB | 006G | New Yamaha Black |
| NRR | 007J | New Ruby Red |
| PYG | 0011 | Pearl Yellow Gold |
| SAB | 00R7 | Star Black |
| SBM | 00E4 | Spanish Burgundy Metallic |
| SGM | 00T4 | Spruce Green Metallic |
| SLD | 00Y1 | Sapphire Blue |
| VB | 00H7 | Vintage Burgundy |
| VGE | 00K2 | Vegas Green |
| YB | 0033 | Yamaha Black |
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