Hi all!

I have been restoring a suzuki A100 and on the cheap which is great fun.
Unfortunatly I have come across a couple of cost related issues.
Here they are:

The Chrome on the guards is pretty rubbish. the front i could get away with but the rear is just too darn ugly
re-chroming = $HEAPS. new guards from thailand = $180

The second problem is that i wanted to repaint in the original colour (see picture). i want to the paint store and they said it was a candy which is 3 layers or something and would cost me in the ballpark of $300.

This is far more than i want to put into my cruddy DIY learner bike/ resto bike. So my next idea is to paint the bike in 2k gloss black and get the pinstriping done in gold on the tank and Paint the guards black too with the gold stripe (kind of like a older british bike kind of style) . But im not sure if this will look any good so I would like to get some opinions on the matter

This is the original colour scheme:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/al...hmentid=264025

Heres my current Progress:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/al...hmentid=264024
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/al...hmentid=264023

And heres one in black with gold pinstriping on the tank
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/al...hmentid=264026

This is a triumph with gold pinstriping on black guards:
http://www.bikeexif.com/triumph-bonneville-belstaff
Im really not sure if an a100 could pull this off though!

ps: how do you insert photos directly into the thread?