1980 BMW R100RT Color - Stock or Alt?

[pjpinsak]

I'm in the process of a "Sympathetic Restoration" to my subject bike, I've had it 26 years and it's clocked nearly 160k miles. Solid runner, needs a repaint.
Seeing as it is over 35 y/o, it is eligible for judging, but everyone in my family agrees, the Brown color has to go.
What if I paint it a period correct color from an RS? Do I get nicked in judging? I'm not terribly fond the red with black overspray either.
Thanks, Pete

[Rubone]

The only other standard color I see available is Phoenix Gold. Some of the other 1980 colors are RS or S only. Like my '80 R100RS in Silver Beige metallic.

[AFJ]

I'm in the process of a "Sympathetic Restoration" to my subject bike, I've had it 26 years and it's clocked nearly 160k miles. Solid runner, needs a repaint.
Seeing as it is over 35 y/o, it is eligible for judging, but everyone in my family agrees, the Brown color has to go.
What if I paint it a period correct color from an RS? Do I get nicked in judging? I'm not terribly fond the red with black overspray either.
Thanks, Pete

I had two airheads over the years, a '74 R90/6 with full Mk. V Windjammer with lowers in the original metallic silver Glasurit with black pinstripe and a '78 R100/7 which was also in the original metallic silver Glasurit with the light blue pinstripe. But on researching why the '78 was not in the chocolate brown, found that it was in the brown when purchased by the original owner but after he traded it in, on an R100RS, the BMW dealer put all new metallic silver finished parts on it (tank,fenders, side covers) so it would go with a Hannigan sidecar then painted in the silver Glasurit paint. And I got it that way several owners later.
Personally, I think the airhead BMWs either with or without fairings look best in the metallic silver, which, along with black, was a stock colour in most markets.
I always got compliments on both the BMWs in their silver finish. I wouldn't know what judges would say.
AFJ