Paint schemes for standard 1962 Navigator.

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Paint scemes for standard 1962 Navigator.
Posted by jeff_pope at January 12. 2010

Can anyone please advise what the available paint schemes were for the above machine or was it just Polychromatic Blue.

Thanks.
- Re: Paint scemes for standard 1962 Navigator.
  Posted by douglas_barrie at January 12. 2010
  
  Hi, in Roy Bacons book Norton Twin Restoration on page 223 it says 1962 Navigator standard as "blue and dove gray". For 1963 it says "blue and dove grey or polychromatic blue petrol tank,oil tank, mudguard and toolbox lid with remainder black".
  
  Hope this helps.
- Re: Paint scemes for standard 1962 Navigator.
  Posted by andy_sochanik at March 10. 2010
  
  Hi Jeff - Andy S here....
  
  Your 1962 Navigator was in 2 tone Blue & dovegrey. (There used to be a picture of my one on the old website - wonder where its got to...)
  
  Blue = Ever Ready battery Blue = Ford Fjord Blue
  
  DoveGrey = British Leyland Arabian Grey
  
  Polychromatic Blue (with Black frame) was used on 1963-on bikes built in the AJS & Matchless factory
- Re: Paint scemes for standard 1962 Navigator.
  Posted by andy_sochanik at March 10. 2010
  
  Jeff - follow this link for your colour scheme
  
  http://www.nortonownersclub.org/models/light-twins/lightweight-images/0089.jpg
- Re: Paint scemes for standard 1962 Navigator.
  Posted by anna_jeannette_dixon at January 21. 2010
  
  hi jeff if need polychomatic blue I have paint codes As I have Norton Manxman yours anna j dixon
  - Re: Paint scemes for standard 1962 Navigator.
    Posted by jeff_pope at June 17. 2010
    
    Previously wrote:
    
    hi jeff if need polychomatic blue I have paint codes As I have Norton Manxman yours anna j dixon
    
    Hi again, sorry,
    
    Just a thought, you being a Dixon and all that...
    
    I have a Barrie Dixon living near me in Somerset - he has several old bikes, would you be related?
    
    Jeff.
  - Re: Paint scemes for standard 1962 Navigator.
    Posted by jeff_pope at June 17. 2010
    
    Previously wrote:
    
    hi jeff if need polychomatic blue I have paint codes As I have Norton Manxman yours anna j dixon
    
    Hi Anna,
    
    Sorry it's been a while since I last looked at these pages...
    
    Iv'e had my Navigator for about five years now and started work feverishly in the early days, only to neglect it due to other more pressing jobs like decorating etc.
    
    But now, this year I am back again and really want to crack on with it. So I'm again back trying to establish exactly what would have been blue on the bike, I know the tanks and battery box would have been but am unsure about the mudguards. My bike was one of the first off the production line at the Matchless factory in Plumstead in London in 1963 so would definately be Polychromatic Blue.
    
    I went to Stafford this year and came across "R S Paint" stand, they claim to be able to supply paint going back for ever, and told me that Polychromatic blue was listed in their books as being on a 1960 Manx, so that fits with your comments.
    
    I have followed other threads on this paint on this forum and am slightly confused which of the following is correct please...
    
    Polychromatic Blue = Lotus metallic blue, = ICI paint code P421/7750 = Lotus paint code A68
    
    Polychromatic Blue = ICI code P031/4863
    
    Many thanks.
    
    Jeff.

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