Zolatone Paint - Get the real stuff here!!

[Drewson]

Fluroforks has been doing alot of excellent work behind the scenes to source the original (or v close to) Zolatone 2000 paint for both 1990 and 1991 Marins....and hopefully we will be getting an order shipped over from the US soon....arranging spraying of frames will occur soon too hopefully. We have already decided on the closest colour so no more recommendations on this please...but the colours should be very very close if not right on....

See the following post for details:

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... t=zolatone

I can't give you exact prices on a respray using Zolatone at the moment but hopefully i will be able to very soon....and hopefully it won't be too silly a price...

But first we want to guage interest in having a 90' or 91' Marin resprayed in Zolatone (as close to the original as humanly possible). Please post here or pm me (not fluroforks....he has enough to deal with) if you are interested in a Zolatone respray....first come first served!!

Obviously i realise that some may opt out if it is too expensive but we are hoping it shouldn't be!!

 

[brocklanders023]

Could well be interested mate, keep us posted.

 

[Drewson]

Will do brocklanders....

 

[elPedro666]

Good work!
Not been a huge Marin fan since they dropped the Zol', always thought it was ace

Look forward to seeing the results.

 

[fluroforks]

id be getting it sorted a bit swifter if zolatone would respond to the emails I send them.

will be hassling them some more tomorrow though.

 

[paddlingpool]

Is there any update on this? May also be interested.

 

[Rich Aitch]

Potentially interested for a 1991 respray.
Rich

 

[fluroforks]

Trails has gone a bit chilly at the mo but I havent given up.

Apparently Zolatone paints have been split up into Automotive paints and Construction type paints. The construction stuff carries the Zolatone name and the automotive side has been rebranded. I dont know what the new name is yet.

Zolatone UK did not recommend spraying this on to a bike frame and went off to find me an alternative - that was some time ago and I havent heard a word.

I havent given up on this as I know it can be done. Classic american cars use something similar in the "trunks" but ive not found anything close enough to do these frames.

I have even spoken to Bob Buckley's office to see if they could shed any light on it, that how determined I am to find a source of this paint.

 

[sherlylock]

Just to re-awaken this topic - I've been doing a bit of trawling the forum and googling with regards to Zolatone as I've just started restoring a '90 Pine Mountain - and I'm quite keen on getting as close to the original as possible.

How cold did the Zolatone trail go? Presumably no-one has successfully bought and applied any of this stuff yet?

From what I've found so far is that it still gets used a lot in the US for spraying vehicle trunks and it tends to be sold as 2 tone fleck effect (bad!) where we want single colour grey. I guess the 2000 brand/colour is dead (although the new stuff is designated as 20 series - was 2000 actually 20-00?)

http://www.zolatoneaim.com/20series.php

The UK version of Zolatone only seems to be available as a finish for interior products and architectural applications and no-one seems to sell the automotive stuff in the UK. (bad!)

From reading on US car resto forums it seems that the texture effect is achieved partly by the spray gun set up and spraying technique (although I've got limited experience with compressor/spraygun - I'm just regurgitating what I've already read) but importantly it seems it can be sprayed from standard equipment (good!)

So - are you allowed to ship paint from the US to the UK? If so - could we not get a quart shipped over here to try it out? I don't think it's particularly cheap stuff and postage may kill the idea so it might not be financially viable.

I may be covering a lot of old ground with this?? But am quite keen to do a bit more investigation.......

 

[legrandefromage]

This is also very close. I've used these for the interior of the boot of my old Mercs (its almost indistinguishable)

and for the genuine Zolatone finish on some early hifi products like this Cyrus 1 amplifier and Meridian MCD Pro (they were always peeling!)