Holdsworth Super Mistral Team Colours - Actual Colours?

[mrgumby]

This is one i sold about a month ago, i got mario to redo it in the team colours:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOLDSWORTH-03 ... SU:GB:1123


And this is another one i sold today:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Racin ... SU:GB:1123

 

[jules_b]

That "Alain" is a strange one. I would say not a Holdsworth as it has the serial number of a 1940s/early 50s Holdsworth but it looks later (maybe late 60s/70s). The lugs are similar to the pro but the bike has eyelets for the mudguards, like the Mistral and the sloping forks and wraparound like both of them. I find it strange that the forks have a lampboss as that was more common in earlier bikes. As there was no 1940s/50s Holdsworth with these features I would say it is not one, unless anyone else has any ideas!

 

[mrgumby]

It's a "youngs of lewisham" frame. Made by holdsworth with a couple of modifications, like the lamp bracket.

The guy who bought it has a few others the same.

 

[black_bird_blue]

Thanks, jules_b, for the info and the encouragement.

I contacted Planet X and have a good reference for the orange but they are using something much more blue now than the turquoise from before and so they couldn't help with that. It's good to know I don't need to be too obsessive about the orange. And anyway, I want to restore the bike "in spirit" rather than to some exact level of detail.

I believe the bars on my seat tube replicate this arrangement:

...but in the team colours, obviously.

Damian

 

[black_bird_blue]

incidentally would you not be able to get a paintshop to match the little patches of orange you have revealed on the bike? and I like the non standard blue and orange bars that your bike seemed to have on the seat tube

A good question. I don't know how much they need. I could always ask, I guess...

 

[Cefnbikie]

When riding to school in the mid 60s, I used to park my Hobbs of Barbican lugless fixed-wheel bike against the end wall of a shed next to a Holdsworth in team colours. Next to the Holdsworth was often parked a Hetchins ‘curly stay'. I always liked the orange of the Holdsworth, and later (in the early 70s) painted a newly-aquired Condor in Ford Vista Orange, to cover the turquoisy-blue that I wasn’t keen on.

 

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For what it's worth, the orange on my 1976 Holdsworth Professional is exactly matched by a stock Porsche colour c. 1974... Signal Orange. The Kingfisher Blue panels are more troublesome and the hue clearly is different year to year. That on mine is much more of a teal shade (more green) than the lighter, brighter shade on other examples. All original paint so must just be a not atypical year to year variation.

 

[black_bird_blue]

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1974 Porsche Signal Orange looks an excellent match. More creamy than the RAL match from Holdsworth. I've found a metallic turquoise that is an excellent match on-screen - Glasurit Medium Aqua Metallic. I can feel some trials coming on...