[Timchopp]

The 05 Bonnie I bought from a friend a couple of years ago came with a pretty savage dent on the top of the tank. It actually seeped a little bit of fuel when the tank was filled up to that spot, so it was a little more than cosmetic. After going down the e bay rabbit hole for over a year getting notified whenever a triumph gas tank from 01-06 was posted..always the wrong color, and always had a dent of its own to be fixed before painting...I got my original tank fixed and painted. If I wanted to go with a different color, this would've been done a lot sooner, but I really wanted to keep the 05 blue paint. Turns out that's easier said than done. But here it is. Between the welder/machine shop dude pulling the dent, the painter, and Wesco guy working on matching for over an hour..they got it.
Here is before, after, and paint codes. hopefully the codes can help someone else out that's hitting the roadblocks I came across in this journey..cheers. Tim

 

[Falcon_52]

Really nice result! That is my favorite color on the new Bonnevilles - just beautiful.

 

[MarlinSpike]

Very nice. I would probably put the side rubber knee pads on to give the blue a black break-up. But that is a really pretty blue.

 

[Timchopp]

Very nice. I would probably put the side rubber knee pads on to give the blue a black break-up. But that is a really pretty blue.

I agree about the rubber knee pads, I'm glad I took them off without ruining them. They will be going back on. Just haven't gotten that far yet, lol

 

[Timchopp]

Really nice result! That is my favorite color on the new Bonnevilles - just beautiful.

Thank you! The effort was worth it. There were a few times during this process I wanted to say screw it, and just go with a totally different color. I learned a lot about automotive paint, global paint schemes, and why it's so difficult to get the exact paint. Maybe it's not as difficult to get in Europe, but hard to say, that's why I am sharing the code from the quart I had made.

 

[MarlinSpike]

That's a beautiful bike - It was worth it!

One time I had to have a color match on an area on a 1968 Z-28 I was restoring. It was expensive and it took quite a doing for the guy to match it, but he did. Good paint guys can really work the magic.

 

[leftarmlogan]

That’s quite a dent. I’m glad you decided to go with the nice original blue color instead of defaulting to boring black like so many others.

 

[Timchopp]

That’s quite a dent. I’m glad you decided to go with the nice original blue color instead of defaulting to boring black like so many others.

Yeah, I wasn't thrilled with the thought of a different color...probably black since that was also available that year. The dent was caused by an empty keg of beer falling down from a rack above the bike in my buddies garage. Right on top of the tank..I think any other place for it to land on the bike would've been better, lol. I had no idea how hard it would be to repair, or replace the tank when I bought the bike, but glad I stuck with the blue paint.

 

[Baltobonneville]

Triumph revived the Aegean Blue on one model around 2018. It's the same color, and might be easier to find than the 2005 in color databases.