It would be worth checking your harness to see if it has 1965 stamped on it. This red, like the original, has the knack of looking orangey The closest colour Red I have found is Ford Sunset Red. The silver was Honda Cloud Silver and every now and then a tin or two pops up but rarely. There are paint manufacturers that can match up the paint colours exactly given the original will have probably faded by know. One dealer only knowing a red version was available advertised it as the Red Dragon. It wasn't known as the Black Bomber then. The first mention here in the UK of Red Dragon was when the 450s were first being introduced in early 66. That figures, at least the damn thing would run all day and not flood every time you looked at it. A few months later the factory sent it back,they had rejected it,"no increase performance". He sent the guy off with a carb and manifold to try out. Laid it over on its side(try that with an Amal Monoblock), it lay there on the ground and idled. Rode it a couple of laps around the parking lot and pulled up the back door, it sat there and idled. Cranked up the motorcycle,warmed it just a bit, a minute later it sat there and idled on its own. The Bultaco rep came to visit our shop one day and the boss showed him the new carb setup. With the Honda carb you could whack the throttle wide open it would just accelerate, with the slide opening as the engine needed it. Their piston port engines had a real peaky power band and if you came out of a slow corner and opened the throttle too much it would flood the engine and bog down. The Bultaco pursang and Greeves engines in the 250 class had big honkin' Amal carbs. Back in the day we used to put the Honda 450 carbs on two-stroke race bikes. The 305s never used cv carbs, the CB350 (far as I know)was the first. As I recall, they had that style front fender.
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