BUILDING A LAMBRETTA OR VESPA STREET RACER PAINT SCHEMES PART 3

Having done all the fabrication and dry build to your street racer, the next stage is to get it painted. This needs to be carefully thought out, making the design as accurate and close as it can possibly be to the finished article. Though the paint scheme doesn’t make any difference to the performance it does to the looks. Get this part of the build right and you can be assured that your street racer project will have a successful conclusion.

Choose a base colour first

The easiest way to start is by choosing the base colour. This is what will lay over the majority of the bodywork and what any other colours will sit on top of. There is no given rule on what colour to use but some definitely work better than others. A lighter colour is better to make everything stand out and by far the best is white. With a white background, stripes, patterns and logos will stand out much more clearly.

Also white is associated with cleanliness and anything painted that colour will have an organised look. If you look at the grid of cars or bikes at the start of a race a machine that is predominantly white stands out far more than ones that are painted a dark colour. If you are going down the light coloured base route then it’s difficult to change the colour too much without it starting to look washed out.

Another thing to remember is there will always be black in any scheme